The first trailer for the upcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White dropped yesterday, and featured a clip of White singing the Springsteen classic Born To Run.
Fans though, had the same question after watching the clip: is that actually White singing? This is what we know.
Newsweek has contacted a representative for White for comment via email.
The Context
Deliver Me From Nowhere follows Springsteen as he records his sixth studio album, Nebraska. The film is written and directed by Scott Cooper based on Warren Zanes’ 2023 biography Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska.
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The film also stars Jeremy Strong as Jon Landau, Springsteen’s manager and record producer, Stephen Graham as Douglas Springsteen, Bruce’s father and Odessa Young as Faye, Bruce’s love interest in the film.
What To Know
White does in fact sing in the film, telling E! News in May “I sing in the film.”
Speaking to GQ in August of last year, White said “There’s just so much footage. It’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.”
White has even been praised for his singing in the film by the Boss himself, with Springsteen telling Jim Rotolo in a Sirius XM interview “He sings very well.”
Springsteen is the latest star to get the biopic treatment.
Timothée Chalamet starred as Bob Dylan in 2024’s A Complete Unknown. Chalamet did his own signing, with no lip-synching, and trained for five years for the role. He worked with a vocal coach, guitar coach, harmonica coach and dialect coach to master Dylan’s voice. The production recorded between 35 and 40 Dylan songs, all of which were performed live on set.
In Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 biopic Elvis, Austin Butler took on the role of the King of rock ‘n’ roll. Butler also sings in the movie, with his voice being exclusively used in scenes which depict Elvis in his younger years. Later in the film, Butler’s vocals were mixed with Elvis’ for the Las Vegas era of his career.
For Bohemian Rhapsody, the 2018 biopic about the life of Queen singer Freddie Mercury, Rami Malek, who portrayed Mercury sang, but the voice heard in the film is a studio-crafted blend of Mercury, Malek and Canadian musician Marc Martel. This mixed vocal though, isn’t on the film’s soundtrack which is instead solely comprised Queen’s original recordings.
What People Are Saying
Jeremy Allen White, speaking to GQ in an August interview last year: “I’m really lucky that there’s sort of a team of folks now in place to help young actors portray rock stars. I’ve got a really talented group of people helping me train vocally, musically, to get ready for this thing.”
@ohhhhhherewegoo on X in response to the film’s trailer, in a post viewed over 447,000 times: “can’t believe this is jeremy allen white’s voice.”
@senseofurgee, in a post on X viewed 84,900 times: “i’m 99% sure jeremy did all the singing himself, he had a vocal coach and learned how to play the guitar for this role specifically. i don’t think he’d go through all that trouble just to use ai to help him out. bruce himself couldn’t tell the difference.”
What’s Next
The film is set to be released on October 24, 2025.