Deliver Me from Nowhere Cast on The Boss: Bruce Springsteen

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00:00Such a humbling start.

00:02Risky to meet your idols.

00:03Who better to answer all of my questions?

00:05Bruce, I'm here! I'm here!

00:10The guitar, just because that was so foreign to me,

00:13I'd at least, like, I've spoken before,

00:16I haven't sang a whole lot,

00:17but I understand the concept of singing.

00:20You know, I've been a fan of music and singers,

00:25but the guitar, I remember holding it in my hands

00:28for the first time and trying to wrap my fingers

00:31around the right strings for the chords,

00:33and it just feeling, like, completely alien to me,

00:36and it was such a humbling start,

00:38where I was really, like, I have no idea how in six months

00:41I'm gonna be playing anything that sounds good at all,

00:44and, um, but like anything, or any skill,

00:47it's, um, it's just time and repetition, you know?

00:51And Mrs. Breaksley right here on the website says...

00:55...the more time, you can't leave that.

00:57Jeremy!

00:59Here we have John, here we have John, here we have John!

01:01Right, I think John was, like, such a steady,

01:03steady hand, you know, for, for Bruce,

01:06and at that period in his life, and, you know,

01:08has continued to be, um...

01:11Yeah, I was really lucky, you know,

01:13uh, to have an actor like Jeremy portraying John,

01:16um, and I think Jeremy's always in search of, of, of truth,

01:21and I think he saw me, you know,

01:23a young actor undertaking this, um, this very large task

01:28of portraying someone like Bruce Springsteen,

01:31and, and so Jeremy instantly felt very kind of protective,

01:35and, um, and caring, you know, for, for me, for Jeremy.

01:39And, um, and I think, uh, I think those feelings of, of, of, of care,

01:45and, and protection, um, you know, bled into, and appropriately so,

01:50in the way that, that John is sort of this, uh, this bodyguard,

01:54not only for Bruce's, uh, uh, work, and the integrity of his work,

01:58um, but also for his, his well-being, you know?

02:01I mean, it was, uh, it was amazing.

02:13He's, you know, risky to meet your idols, I would say.

02:18And, and, um, there, you know, there was definitely times

02:22where I, I thought maybe I don't actually want to ever meet Bruce.

02:25Like, maybe I could just be in this movie and never meet him,

02:28because I was so terrified, but he is such a gentleman.

02:33A genuinely, like, such a gracious and generous human being.

02:39And he is so normal and nice.

02:44And I really can't say, uh,

02:47can't say enough how brilliant he is.

02:49Hey, Patty, right here.

02:51Jeremy!

02:51Hey, everybody, right here.

02:52Come on!

02:54We, we find him in this film when he's coming off the River Tour,

02:57and he can very easily continue that trajectory

02:59of selling out arenas and having hit songs.

03:02Um, but instead, he chose silence, a four-track recorder,

03:10and the courage to look inward.

03:12And that choice gave us Nebraska.

03:15Uh, a record with a great deal of personal resonance for me.

03:19Um, a record that's unlike anything else he's recorded.

03:23And, as we see in the film, the record label thinks

03:28is a great commercial risk.

03:30So, art matters most when it risks everything,

03:34and the result is Nebraska.

03:36Hey, this is big, Steve.

03:37Hey, this is nice, Steve.

03:38Hey, this is nice, Steve.

03:39Hey, this is nice, Steve.

03:41I loved having Bruce around,

03:45because even though I'm not making a documentary,

03:48I wanted to align as close to historical record as possible.

03:54Authenticity in all of my movies is incredibly important,

03:57but when you're making a movie about

03:59America's most authentic artist,

04:02it has to be authentic.

04:03And who better to answer all of my questions

04:06than Bruce himself?

04:08So, I loved having him on set.

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