Actor Jeremy Strong on the spiritual ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’
The Treatment
KCRW
4.6 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with Emmy award winning actor Jeremy Strong about his new film Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Strong plays Springsteen's producer and manager Jon Landau in the film about the making of the 1982 album Nebraska. Then, Elvis speaks with photographer Chris Fenimore, who is also the creator of the influential Esquire column "Five Fits With." And on the Treat, Emmy winning writer and director Larry Charles talks about the book that influenced his particular take on comedy.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
| 0:05.0 | It's the Treatment. |
| 0:07.0 | It's the treatment. |
| 0:15.0 | My guest who I have known since sitting next one on an airplane going to Toronto, 11 years ago now, is Emmy winner, Tony winner, Academy Award nominee. |
| 0:28.0 | A few things have happened since I've met you, Jeremy Strong. |
| 0:30.8 | His newest role is playing John Landau in the film Springsteen, Deliver Me from Nowhere. |
| 0:37.2 | First of all, I have to say this to you. I thought about you when Daniel D. Louis made a statement recently about meth-in-acting and about how it's misinterpreted. And because we had this conversation actually the last time we spoke about that. And I thought about something, I don't know if I ever mentioned to you, but I was friends of Tony Morrison. And she told me that some of the smartest notes she ever got about her books were from Marlon Brando, who she spent time with on the phone. |
| 1:02.0 | She said, and he would read her his notes from the pages that he'd written. |
| 1:07.0 | She just said he was one of the most astute readers that she'd ever encountered. |
| 1:11.6 | And that came from the kind of an emotional intelligence that she would ascribe to actors. |
| 1:16.0 | That's wonderful. |
| 1:17.7 | I loved what Daniel said last week. |
| 1:20.2 | You know, essentially that a lot of the narrative that's been sort of pretty prevalent the last few years is, I think, predicated in a deep |
| 1:30.3 | misunderstanding of what acting is and has been done by people who know very little about |
| 1:36.3 | what actors do. And I think every actor is in their own way trying to find a way to believe in what they're doing, ultimately. |
| 1:51.8 | And I don't know what method acting is. |
| 1:55.8 | I mean, I know what Stanislavski said it was. |
| 1:58.1 | That's certainly not what I do. |
| 2:19.1 | According to my understanding, it's not what a lot of people who have been called that do. But it's about, you know, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce said in his autobiography, which is one of the great books, talk about emotional intelligence and acuity and depth in Born to Run. He said the real question is about how deeply can you inhabit your song? And that's the same, you know, as an actor. You're just |
| 2:26.3 | trying to inhabit the song being the character. And you have to inhabit that as fully and as |
| 2:32.6 | deeply as you can. And whatever it takes to do that as fully and as deeply as you can |
| 2:34.7 | and whatever it takes to do that |
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