Playing Bruce Springsteen in a new biopic took a terrible toll on Jeremy Allen White.

The 35-year-old actor stars in the movie Deliver Me From Nowhere but admitted it was difficult to be away from his daughters during filming and put himself in "painful places" to accurately portray the legendary rocker.

"I feel like I'm pain for hire. Like I'm getting paid to put myself in painful places," he told The Sunday Times.

"On The Bear it's not like I walk around punching walls and screaming in my closet. But I stay close to that energy and it's uncomfortable - and filming the Bruce movie was incredibly difficult.

"I was in isolation. I was far from my children. I didn't travel home much. It made me unwell and when I came out of it I thought, 'There has to be a better way'."

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