Jeremy Strong says Springsteen biopic is “a mentor story” like Trump film ‘The Apprentice’

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Succession actor Jeremy Strong has compared the forthcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere with his recent role in The Apprentice.The star is set to play The Boss’ manager Jon Landau alongside Jeremy Allen White.The film finds Springsteen at a difficult point in life while recording his sixth album, 1982’s ‘Nebraska‘.

Landau is credited by many with influencing the music legend artistically and personally.Much like his role as mentor to Donald Trump in The Apprentice – as ruthless New York lawyer Roy Cohn – Strong said he plays a similar in role Deliver Me From Nowhere but in a much more positive way.Speaking in a new interview with Variety, when asked what it was like to portray Landau, he said: “Utterly life affirming.

It’s a mentor story, like The Apprentice. But if Roy is Mephistopheles, Jon is a force of light.“Spending time with Bruce and Jon and communing with Bruce’s music, which is a gospel of hope and faith and love, as opposed to a gospel of hatred and mendacity and nihilism, which is what Roy was, it was a tonic.

It lifted me out of the darkness.”In a previous interview with Deadline, Strong said while the characters are both mentors Cohn bears no comparison with Landau.