2025 has quickly become the year of the music biopic, with Jeremy Allen White set to continue the trend by taking up the mantle of Bruce Springsteen in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere – a new movie that documents the making of Springsteen’s beloved 1982 album Nebraska.
Now, in a new interview, his co-star from the hit comedy-drama The Bear, Ayo Edebiri, has raved about White's in-depth preparation for the high-pressure biopic role.
“He is a man of secret talents,” she tells Gayle King on CBS Mornings. “Jeremy likes to be like, ‘Oh, me? I'm a regular guy.’ And then you're like, ‘What are you doing, tap dancing in a corner?’ And then he's like, ‘Oh, yeah. I used to take tap dance lessons.’ You're like, ‘What?’
“Then even when he was prepping for the [Springsteen] movie, he brought a guitar. And we'll run lines with each other when we're not working, because we just shoot so fast.
She continues, “Then I remember, Ebon [Moss-Bachrach, another co-star from The Bear] and I were like, ‘What are all these guitars?’ And he's like, ‘Oh, it's nothing.’ And then it's like, he's playing Bruce Springsteen-level guitar, and is actually amazing.”
White worked with session guitar guru J.D. Simo – who has worked with the likes of Jack White, Tommy Emmanuel, and on the Baz Luhrmann Elvis biopic – to sharpen his guitar chops.
In a recent interview, Simo talked about the pressure he felt as a mentor and guitar teacher to set White up for success – and the one piece of advice that helped the actor play like the Boss.
