Jeremy Allen White had to learn to sing and play guitar to play Bruce Springsteen in the new biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and of course by playing and meeting The Boss, he learned a lot about the man himself.

“I think what struck me most about Bruce is how sort of graceful and gentle he is. And his relationship to the world is still so, kind of, kind and pure,” White tells ABC News. The actor says he would “find it difficult to move with such grace” after so many decades as a beloved icon.

And now that filming is over, White says he misses getting to sing like Bruce.

“That was the way … I felt closest to Bruce, in Nashville at RCA recording his music,” he says. “There’s, like, such a preciousness to being in the studio, singing his words.”

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