Director Scott Cooper Recalls Moment He First Heard Jeremy Allen White Sing Like Bruce Springsteen | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Scott Cooper chats with THR at the premiere for 'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere' and recalls the moment he first heard Jeremy Allen White sound like Bruce Springsteen while in the recording studio. Plus, he talks about the "gift" it was to have Bruce on set.

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00:00Making sure that Jeremy could sing like Bruce was a major part of this.

00:04Take me back to the moment you remember hearing him just nail it and you're like,

00:07okay, he's got this, this is all going to work.

00:09Yeah, I mean, quite frankly, I didn't know that was going to happen.

00:12I knew that Jeremy White could play the intensity, the vulnerability.

00:16I knew that he had the kind of blue-collar physicality and the swagger that Bruce has.

00:21But it wasn't until we got to the RCA, very historic recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee,

00:27that Jeremy started to lay down Bruce's lyrics that I thought, my God, this is incredible.

00:36I knew that he had been enduring the kind of humbling process of becoming Bruce

00:40through vocal lessons and guitar lessons and harmonica lessons and movement lessons.

00:46But until you see it, you have no idea.

00:48And it just was like I was struck by thunder, by lightning,

00:52and it just was one of the great experiences of my film career.

00:57And what was it like having Bruce on set?

00:59How did he inform what was happening in real time?

01:01It was a gift.

01:04You can only read so many biographies or Bruce's autobiography to get his state of mind.

01:10But in order to really understand him, you have to speak to Bruce.

01:14And he made himself so incredibly available to me when I was writing,

01:18when I was shooting, and when I was editing.

01:21And it has immeasurably improved the film.

01:27And I was working with Bruce on set a table.

01:46And then he shouted at sounds.

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