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,
00:07and you're like, okay, 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.
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