Oprah with Jeremy Allen White & Scott Cooper on Creating Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Harpo

December 23, 2025

Show Notes

Oprah sits down with actor Jeremy Allen White and writer-director Scott Cooper for a fascinating conversation about their stirring new film, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. The film is a revelatory look at Bruce Springsteen during a personal and professional crossroads; the film explores the mental health struggles and creative reckoning behind the making of his deeply personal album Nebraska. Oprah calls White’s Golden Globe–nominated performance “mesmerizing” and praises Cooper for “elevating quiet struggle into cinematic poetry,” describing the film as “a gift” and a meditation on “what it means to be human.” The film also stars Jeremy Strong, Odessa Young, Stephen Graham, Johnny Cannizzaro, Gaby Hoffman, Paul Walter Hauser and Grace Gummer.

SEE THE FILM!

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, starring Golden Globe nominee Jeremy Allen White, written and directed by Scott Cooper, and distributed by 20th Century Studios is now available on Demand.

https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/springsteen-deliver-me-from-nowhere/umc.cmc.44ij3fzlajh43wxngtyxd6ioi

- Oprah introduces the movie Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

- Oprah, Jeremy Allen White and Scott Cooper at Santa Barbara Film Festival

- Jeremy on getting cast as Bruce Springsteen

- Scott on telling Springsteen’s story

- Scott on asking Bruce to make this film

- How Jeremy prepared to become Bruce Springsteen

- Jeremy on learning guitar

- Scott on using black and white photography for flashbacks

- How playing Springsteen changed Jeremy

- Scott on how making the movie changed him

- Springsteen and mental illness