Bruce Springsteen agreed to Deliver Me From Nowhere because it felt like an "anti-biopic".
The 75-year-old musician's life during the recording of his 1982 album Nebraska is explored in the new movie and the Born in the USA hitmaker joked he gave writer-and-director Scott Cooper the green light for the project because he's "old " and "doesn't give a f***" anymore.
Speaking during a panel discussion at the Telluride Film Festival over the weekend, he said: "What brought this one along “was that I think we had a very specific idea — Scott had a very specific idea, particularly, of what we were gonna attempt to do.
"And, for lack of a better word, it was an anti-biopic. You know, it’s really not a biopic — it just takes a couple years out of my life when I was 31 and 32 and looks at them really at a time when I made this particular record, and when I went through some just difficult places in my life, you know.
"And, I’m old and I don’t give a f*** what I do now.”
Jeremy Allen White portrays The Boss in the movie and despite his lack of musical background before filming, the director knew he was the right choice.
He explained during the discussion: "[Jeremy had] an intensity of vulnerability and authenticity that I saw in Bruce’s work and in archival interviews with Bruce… Jeremy has two things that really, for me, make up Bruce Springsteen, and one is humility. And the other is swagger.”
Bruce quipped: “That’s half-right."
The Born to Run singer spoke touchingly of having attended the very first screening of the film at the festival with his sister Pamela, who is seen as a child in a number of flashback scenes in Deliver Me From Nowhere.
He said: “I got to watch the film with my one-year-younger sister who is just a little blonde girl on the film, but it was actually a little brown, short-haired girl.
"But she sat there with me and we watched the film and she held onto my hand, and at the end of it, she turns to me and says, ‘Isn’t it wonderful we have this?’”
