There is a lot of ground covered in Time magazine’s career-spanning new interview with Bruce Springsteen ahead of the release of a new biopic about the New Jersey icon. At the centre of the piece, though, is the film and its themes. Titled Deliver Me From Nowhere, it stars The Bear’s Jeremy White and Succession’s Jeremy Strong as The Boss and his closest confidant and manager Jon Landau respectively and, rather than trying to cram everything in, homes in on a specific era of Springsteen’s life, specifically what happened around the recording and release of his stripped-down 1982 masterpiece Nebraska.
The feature details how director Scott Cooper – who says the “narrow time frame reveals deeper truths about Bruce’s lifelong struggles with identity and creative honesty” – approached Springsteen with Landau and famed biographer Warren Zanes to talk about the idea ready for a reality check. No-one, it seems, were of the opinion he’d agree to it. But asked why he did, Springsteen says, “I’m old. I don’t give a fuck what I do anymore. As you get older, you feel a lot freer.”
