While writer-director Scott Cooper was working on early screenplay drafts for Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere , the real-life subject of the film made it clear how he wanted him to approach the project. “Bruce gave me a piece of advice that I felt was really critical,” Cooper says on the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now , “which is, ‘The truth about yourself is not always pretty.’ … This film isn’t about the mythology or iconography of Bruce Springsteen . It’s about a man who happens to be Bruce, suffering through the issues that so many of us are suffering through.”

The latest episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast dives into the making of the film, featuring interviews with both Cooper and actor Stephen Graham , who plays Springsteen’s father. To hear

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