As the living subject of the next highly-anticipated musical biopic, Bruce Springsteen is applauding his onscreen counterpart’s performance. Although he admitted it was “a little [weird] at first” seeing Jeremy Allen White play him in writer/director Scott Cooper‘s Deliver Me from Nowhere,

Bruce Springsteen is singing Jeremy Allen White’s praises for his performance as The Boss himself in the upcoming biopic “Deliver Me from Nowhere.”

A scene was not shot Dec. 13 at the corner of South and Main streets in Freehold, where several storefronts were transformed to look like the 1950s.