currently staying at the Stock Exchange Hotel<\/a>, as he embarks on a tour in the UK, while Stephen Graham has been grabbing headlines since the release of Adolescence with reviews saying he is the best actor in Britain.<\/p>\nThe restaurant wrote: “Absolutely honoured to have these two absolute legends over for a spot of lunch @stephengraham1973 @springsteen. Can think of worst ways to start the weekend!”<\/p>\n
Graham plays Springsteen’s father Douglas ‘Dutch’ Springsteen in the biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White in the lead role, due for release next year.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Edith Bowman on her podcast Soundtracking, Graham told how feedback from Springsteen had left him tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m racing to get to the airport,\u201d said Graham, \u201cand I got this text, and it was so beautiful. It just said: \u2018Better than any award that I could ever receive in my life\u2019. He\u2019s an icon. He\u2019s a hero.\u201d<\/p>\n
Graham continued: \u201cHe\u2019s a working-class hero. He\u2019s an icon to thousands, to millions. And his text just said, \u2018Thank you so much. You know, my father passed away a while ago and I felt like I saw him today and thank you for giving me that memory.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cI was crying reading the text, do you know what I mean? Oh mate, it was beautiful. You couldn\u2019t ask for anything more, you know, to share that with someone was gorgeous. He\u2019s a lovely man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music legend Bruce Springsteen and TV star Stephen Graham had lunch at the restaurant 18:11, 17 May 2025Updated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,1936,393,4884,2465,696,16,15,2302],"class_list":{"0":"post-110052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-co-op-live","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-music","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-yorkshire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114525379565307561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Bruce Springsteen and Stephen Graham at Normans Restaurant in Kirkburton(Image: Normans Restaurant)<\/p>\n