Gilbert Cruz

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It's possible you've seen somewhere on the internet or somewhere in your social media feeds images of the actor Jeremy Allen White looking a lot like Bruce Springsteen.

That's because this Friday, the film Springsteen, Deliver Me From Nowhere, is coming out.

And it's a movie about a brief and dark and very specific period of Springsteen's life.

And that's what we're going to talk about today.

Not just that upcoming movie, but we're going to be talking generally about the music biopic.

It's a genre that Hollywood loves to dip into, and it's a genre that the Academy really loves to reward with lots and lots of Oscar nominations.

Today, I'm here with two of my colleagues, Lindsay Zolads, a pop music critic here at The Times and author of our Amplifier newsletter.

Welcome, Lindsay.

Hi.

And Joe Coscarelli, a culture reporter and one of the co-hosts of PopCast.

Thanks for being here, Joe.

Hey, Gilbert.

So let's start off by talking about the Springsteen movie.