You were listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is my interview of the director and writer for Springsteen deliver me from nowhere, Scott Cooper.

It's a 305V8. Never owned a new car before.

Yeah, it's awfully fitting for handsome, that old rock star. I do know who you are.

Well, that makes one of us.

Hey, boss, can you do a mic check? Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

How's that sound?

Uh, looks about right.

Don't need to be perfect.

I wanted to feel like I'm in the room by myself.

Yeah.

Let's try one. Here. Here's what I want you to understand.

This is not about either one of us.

This is not about the charts.

This is about Bruce Springsteen.

And these are the songs that he wants to work on right now. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Next Best Picture podcast where I'm being joined right now by the director and writer of the film, Springsteen, deliver me from nowhere. Scott Cooper. Scott, welcome to the show, man. Thank you so much for being here. Yeah, you bet, Matt. Look forward to it to it, man. Yeah, man, I've been wanting to talk with you for a bit, and like, I'm so happy it could be for this film because I really think you tapped into something really, really special here. You know, the music biopic is something that a lot of people sometimes say, oh, we've seen this before, we know what this is. But I really saw this more as like a deep dive character study in so many ways of really trying to get it something really personal, really intimate, and quite dark that can be used as a healing tool for other people that are dealing with, you know, suppressed trauma.

Maybe not so much in touch with

how to communicate their emotions, their feelings of what they maybe have had to go through

in the past. I mean, I would like to think that we are definitely more open about these things

as a society in 2025.

Let's be sure about that.

Yeah, no, that's what I was going to say. But still, there's work to be done.

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