Brilliant disguise

Jeremy Allen's vocal odyssey from The Bear to The Boss in Springsteen biopic

- BY MARC BAKER

EVERY painstaking note Jeremy Allen White sang as he strove to perfect Bruce Springsteen's rasping tone made him certain who was The Boss.

Aping Springsteen's genius for his role in the new biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere was always set to be a daunting task.

But the actor, who first found fame playing juvenile delinquent Lip Gallagher in the US version of Shameless, had not bargained on the Born to Run star shadowing him 24/7 on set.

He laughs: "It was very hard. Especially because he's sitting there the whole time.

"I had not had a lot of experience - or any experience - singing, playing guitar, any of it, before I took on the role. So that was daunting, to say the least, in the beginning"

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"I had a lot of time, but I didn't have as much time as I would have liked. You never do, you know? I had about six months to kind of learn." Six months may sound like a long time to the uninitiated.