Want to be in the Bruce Springsteen movie? They’re casting adults, children, people with vintage cars.

Any Bruce Springsteen fans want to be in the upcoming movie about The Boss?
Here’s your chance.
Ninth of December, Asbury Park — and a few other dates and places (see below).
The movie, titled “Deliver Me from Nowhere,” follows the making of Springsteen’s acclaimed 1982 album “Nebraska” and is based on Warren Zanes’ 2023 book of the same name.
Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White from “The Bear” stars as a younger Springsteen in the 20th Century Studios film written and directed by Scott Cooper (“Crazy Heart,” “The Pale Blue Eye,” “Antlers,” “Black Mass”). Springsteen and his manager Jon Landau are involved with the movie, which is filming in New Jersey this fall and winter, into early 2025.
Another Jeremy, the Emmy-winning “Succession” star Jeremy Strong, plays Landau in the film, while Johnny Cannizzaro, who played Nick DeVito in the film adaptation of “Jersey Boys,” will play E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt.
Stephen Graham (”Peaky Blinders,” “Gangs of New York”) is playing Springsteen’s father, Douglas “Dutch” Springsteen.
Emmy winner Paul Walter Hauser (”Richard Jewell”) is playing Mike Batlan, the guitar tech who set up the recording equipment in the bedroom of the Colts Neck house that Springsteen was renting while recording “Nebraska,” his sixth album.
Odessa Young (”The Staircase”) plays Springsteen’s love interest in the film, and Deadline reports that Harrison Sloan Gilbertson (”Oppenheimer”) will play a friend of Springsteen.
Melissa Braun, casting director with New York’s Grant Wilfley Casting, tells NJ Advance Media that the production — code name “Husker” (you know, like the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers football team) — needs background actors/extras.
First, the production is looking for children ages 3 to 17 and adults of all ages and ethnicities — especially Native American and Indigenous families — for scenes that will be set in the early 1980s. These scenes are scheduled to film in Morris County Nov. 22.
Next, background actors are being cast for filming this December in Asbury Park — Springsteen’s famous hangout.
The production is seeking adults of all ages and ethnicities and children 6 to 12 years old for scenes set in the 1950s and early 1980s. The Asbury Park filming is scheduled to take place Dec. 9 to 13 and Dec. 16.
“Deliver Me from Nowhere” also needs people of all ethnicities, 18 to 30s, for scenes set in the early 1980s that will be filmed in the Meadowlands Jan. 9 and 10, 2025.
In August 1984, Springsteen played 10 nights at what was then the Brendan Byrne Arena in the Meadowlands — which became the Izod Center and is now the Meadowlands Arena — as part of his Born in the U.S.A. tour (see video below). The arena is now used for film and TV production as well as band tour rehearsals.
Finally, the movie needs drivers with period cars from the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s … up until 1981. This will be for the December scenes in Asbury Park (Dec. 9 to 13 and Dec. 16).
How can you apply to be a background actor/driver in the Springsteen movie?
Anyone interested in the casting calls can send their name, contact information, whether or not they are SAG-AFTRA, height, weight, clothing sizes, shoe sizes and current photos (for the vintage car owners/driver applicants, include year, make, model and color of the car with photos of the vehicle), to [email protected].
Put the location of the scenes you’re applying for in the subject line of the email. Parents submitting for their children must include the kids’ ages.
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