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Jeremy Allen White<\/a> needed a little bit of space from the rest of the world while shooting Bruce Springsteen’<\/a>s upcoming biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n As part of an Around the Table conversation with\u00a0Entertainment Weekly,<\/em> the 34-year-old actor opens up about feeling “fragile” and needing time alone to fully process the film’s heavy subject matter while shooting.<\/p>\n “[Springsteen] and I spoke a lot, I remember, in preparation. I had a really wonderful afternoon or evening where he took me on the Freehold tour,” White says, referencing the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter’s hometown.\u00a0“We would text and we would call. And then once we got to set, there was like, such a\u2026 I don’t know, I felt very fragile at times.”<\/p>\n He continues, \u201cAnd in this strange way, protective of [Springsteen] because, at the end of the day, these are real moments that have happened, these are real rooms. There was something very delicate about that, and I think I, once we were on set, became quite introverted. I need a little bit of separation into my own kind of understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n The film, which hits theaters on Friday, is based on Warren Zanes\u2019 eponymous book and follows an isolated Springsteen as he grapples with depression, generational trauma, and his personal and musical identity while crafting what would become his critically acclaimed 1982 album, Nebraska<\/em>.<\/p>\n White is accompanied on the emotional adventure by Jeremy Strong, who plays Springsteen’s co-producer and manager Jon Landau, as well as Paul Walter Hauser, Stephen Graham, and Odessa Young.\u00a0<\/p>\n Seated alongside White for the Around the Table conversation, Strong notes that he also mostly developed his character “in solitude,” though he shared meals with his real-life counterpart and got the chance to ask him questions before they began shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n “In a way, the information that you want to get is sort of around,” he says. “We become like obsessive detectives looking for these clues. Stephen Graham used the word ‘magpie’ the other day, which is so great. We are! We’re collecting things, and there were things that I got from Jon [Landau], but mainly it’s a lot of your own work.”<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n It wasn’t until he felt comfortable in his understanding of Landau that it became a real treat to have him on set, Strong adds.\u00a0<\/p>\n