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Actor Jeremy Allen White discusses his approach to playing real-life individuals. He explains that after his immersive experience portraying Bruce Springsteen, he felt an 'added pressure' and chose not to meet the person his character in 'The Social Reckoning' is based on.
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00:00I'm not really answering your question. Sorry, I'm like recycling stuff right now.
00:04I didn't meet Jeff. It was an option to meet Jeff.
00:08But I had just played a real person, a very public person, and spent a lot of time with him.
00:14And it was a beautiful process, but I think there was like an added pressure in sort of spending so
00:21much time with Bruce for that.
00:23And I was a little hesitant about, I guess, doing that again.
00:26I read his book and I listened to his voice and I watched interviews and stuff like that.
00:31But no, I just, other than that, I stuck to like Aaron's world and Aaron's script and just tried to
00:38understand his perspective as best I could on my own.
00:41Gary, what about you? Did you meet with Jeff at all?
00:44No, I felt the same way. And I think Aaron felt the same way with Jeff and Francis, where, you
00:49know, they are public people to an extent,
00:51but they're not so widely known that Aaron felt that it was important that we...
00:55Yeah, and thank you very much.

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