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Jeremy Allen White and the cast and director of Deliver Me From Nowhere share their first memories of Bruce Springsteen.
Delisa Shannon: Before we start, I have to share something: Our Billboard charts team did a little digging. And obviously we know Bruce Springsteen has had an incredible legacy through rock n’ roll, but I have to read this verbatim. “With Letter to You releasing in 2020, Bruce Springsteen became the first artist to have a new top five album on the Billboard 200 in each of the last six decades.” Small local guy, but big dreams. Yeah. So I want to know from each of you what was your first entry point to Bruce Springsteen, and can you talk a bit about the moments that maybe have been soundtracked by him throughout your lives?
Scott Cooper: It was Nebraska. That was the first album that my father, who really helped form my early musical interests, introduced to me, and quite honestly, kind of been haunted by it ever since, which is why I made a film about it. But I’m such a longtime fan of Bruce’s, certainly that I would listen to often when I would write other movies or The Ghost of Tom Joad, Letters, Darkness on the Edge of Town. Of course, Greetings From — well, where we are — Asbury. I mean, it’s, it’s, it’s endless for me and Bruce.
Jeremy Allen White: Yeah, I guess my introduction to Bruce early when I found him on my own, like I was always familiar with him. I always knew his name. I knew the radio hits.
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