00:00Jeremy Allen White is revealing exactly how he's preparing to play Bruce Springsteen in the upcoming biopic about the rock star.
00:07White will play Springsteen in 20th Century and Disney's Deliver Me From Nowhere.
00:11News of the movie's production picked up earlier this spring, and the star of the bear is now deep in preparation for the legendary role.
00:18White told GQ,
00:19And according to White, the prep also includes a lot of YouTube videos.
00:28There's just so much footage.
00:29It's really great to go down a YouTube rabbit hole and find him at all these different periods in his life and be able to listen to his speaking voice as well as his singing voice.
00:38That's kind of been the deal, just listening to him a lot and watching him a lot.
00:41It's been really fun preparing.
00:42The actor also added of his training,
00:44I'm really lucky that there's sort of a team of folks now in place to help young actors portray rock stars.
00:50In recent years, Austin Butler portrayed Elvis in Elvis.
00:53Rami Malek played Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody.
00:55Naomi Ackie played Whitney Houston in Whitney Houston, I Want to Dance with Somebody.
01:00And Kingsley Ben-Adeer played Bob Marley in Bob Marley, One Love.
01:03Still upcoming, Timothy Chalamet will play Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown.
01:07And Jafar Jackson will portray his uncle, Michael Jackson, in Michael.
01:11Deliver Me From Nowhere explores the making of Springsteen's 1982 album, Nebraska.
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