Gilbert Cruz

As an Oscar nerd, I'm certainly curious to see whether or not Jeremy Allen White's performance as Bruce Springsteen or Jeremy Strong's performance as John Landau, his manager, whether or not those get any nods from the Academy.

Joe, what did you think of Jeremy Allen White?

I mean, one of the things, again, I feel like with this one and the Bob Dylan movie from last year, A Complete Unknown, I remember talking to the director of that movie, James Mangold, and he was talking about how he was attempting to not make this your typical biopic.

And he would know because he made Walk the Line, in which Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny Cash, many, many years ago.

And I was sort of want to talk about

What we think characterizes your classic, your classical music biopic, because you have to have a form to divert from.

Lindsay, tell me about the beats that a music biopic has to hit.

You see the camera pan over the billboard chart.

It's like the version of a spinning newspaper telling you the headline.

Yeah.

No, that capitalism returns to the mean.

We don't acknowledge that anymore.

That movie came after Walk the Line, which was the biopic about Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash and Ray, which was the movie in which Jamie Foxx played Ray Charles.

in which both of them lost siblings when they were a child, which is why in the movie Walk Hard, in which John C. Reilly plays an up-and-coming rock and roll star, he accidentally cuts his brother in half with a machete.

It is the trauma that haunts him for the rest of his life.

Yes.

The music biopic has been around for quite a while.

I do a little research, and there was a period in the 50s in which you had...

The Glenn Miller story, the Gene Krupa story.

And the Betty Goodman story.