“Picking up a guitar when you’ve never held one before… That was the most frightened I’ve been in my work life”: Jeremy Allen White had never played guitar until he was hired to play Bruce Springsteen – and it was the scariest challenge of his career

Jeremy Allen White in the movie “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.”.

Jeremy Allen White is starring as Bruce Springsteen in the brand-new biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere – a role which required him to learn the guitar for the first time in his life.

Naturally, biopics about musicians mean actors have to go through the growing pains of learning guitar in the style of the musician they’re embodying in order to convey a faithful portrayal.