The Last Mile of the Way<\/a>,\u201d and the two men sit on the floor holding hands as they listen to the song.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re on this journey with Bruce as he\u2019s sinking deeper down into his depression, and it was really wonderful to have this moment of peace and joy and belonging before that loneliness settles in,\u201d White says. \u201cDepression doesn\u2019t just head in one direction the entire time; there are waves and hills and valleys. So for Bruce, but for me as well, it was a very welcome moment of levity.\u201d<\/p>\n
The scene was partly improvised, in the sense that White didn\u2019t know what the song was going to be before cameras rolled. Through his research, Strong knew that Springsteen and Landau used to stay up all night playing records for each other.<\/p>\n
So the night before filming, \u201cI texted them, \u2018If you were going to play a song to save your friend\u2019s life, what might that be?\u2019 \u201d Strong recalls. \u201cFor a couple hours, Bruce sent me a bunch of different ideas, and then eventually he said, \u2018Last Mile of the Way,\u2019 which is about passing through a dark valley before the promised land. It was one of those magical things.\u201d<\/p>\n
In that moment, \u201cI felt so seen and taken care of by Jeremy,\u201d White says. \u201cSam Cooke is one of my favorite artists ever. To be genuinely surprised hearing this, and also to be in this caring presence, it didn\u2019t take much work for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Awards pundits predict that both White and Strong will be Oscar contenders for their performances, which have been praised by critics on the film festival circuit. But for the actors, the most meaningful feedback has come from Springsteen\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen they watched it for the first time, his sister said, \u2018I’m so glad we have this,\u2019 \u201d White recalls. \u201cAnd I think that’s the way Bruce feels. To make Bruce happy and feel proud of the work we did, and want to share it with his family and these people who’ve been in his orbit forever \u2013 I mean, that’s all you could really ask for. We did our job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong didn’t know each other before being cast as Bruce Springsteen and Jon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[840,80399,365,24426,15248,434,5716,2054,27832,19703,19708,18,117,1237,19,17,80398,21459,26465,526,5718,1382,6004,327,337,5,713,856,842,5711,6318,6321,24427,54160,716,14889],"class_list":{"0":"post-134556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-allen","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-bruce","12":"tag-bruce-springsteen","13":"tag-celebrities","14":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","15":"tag-documentary","16":"tag-documentary-films","17":"tag-drama","18":"tag-drama-films","19":"tag-eire","20":"tag-entertainment","21":"tag-films","22":"tag-ie","23":"tag-ireland","24":"tag-jeremy","25":"tag-jeremy-allen-white","26":"tag-jeremy-strong","27":"tag-local","28":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","29":"tag-movie","30":"tag-movie-reference","31":"tag-movies","32":"tag-music","33":"tag-news","34":"tag-overall","35":"tag-overall-positive","36":"tag-positive","37":"tag-reference","38":"tag-rock","39":"tag-rock-music","40":"tag-springsteen","41":"tag-strong","42":"tag-u0026","43":"tag-white"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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