Lindsay Zoladz

But generally with biopics, I think...

the bigger a fan you are and the closer you are to that artist, the more potential there is for disappointment, for sort of having too precious a relationship to that artist, and you're kind of only seeing what's not there.

You're fact-checking it in real time.

You're taking, you know...

So I think the less familiar you are often with an artist, the more successful a biopic can be for just like telling a story.

I think, you know, I can see myself getting a little caught up in the details of this and, you know, just going a little too Bruce nerd about it.

It's an interesting choice to focus the film on, you know, the creation of this album rather than something like Born in the USA or Born to Run.

Well, we need to know where the artist comes from, both a sense of place and, you know, as we're talking with Bruce, a sense of perhaps familial trauma, a core memory that sets them on the path to expressing themselves in music.

You know, we need to see sort of the early artistic awakening happening.

Prodigiousness?

Yeah, yeah.

The early...

Inklings of, you know, they're becoming a musician in some way.

And then there's arguably the most exciting and fun part, like the sometimes it's a great montage, you know, but the rise to success, you know, you can really have fun with that beat.

Yeah.

I think.

Shooting up the charts.

We need an arrow going up.

And then perhaps success is not all it's cracked up to be.

There's that beat.