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To Stephen Grahamthis was a big year for fatherly roles, starting with the distraught father of a troubled son in Adolescencefrom the Netflix — shocking series that he also co-created. He gives an equally strong performance as a very different father, the troubled Douglas Springsteenin the new film Springsteen: Save Me From the Unknown.

The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now explores the production of the biographical film (starring Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen), with the presenter Brian Hiatt talking to Graham and with the director/screenwriter Scott Cooper. In the interview, Graham talks about how he prepared for the role, his interactions with Bruce Springsteen on set and more. To listen to the full episode, go to your preferred podcast provider here, listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

Here are some highlights from the interview with Graham:

Bruce Springsteen personally approved Graham for the role.

“I thought, ‘What? bruce Do you know that I exist?’”, he recalls Graham. “AND [o diretor Scott Cooper] said, ‘Look, I want you to play the role because of the gravitas you’re going to bring.’ And I said, ‘Yes, I’m going to do it.’ And he said, ‘I didn’t send you the script.’ I said, ‘You don’t have to.’”

Graham discovered a key to the character in conversations with Bruce.

“One of the most important things was when I met brucehe was completely unconscious, but what he did was change his tone of voice whenever he spoke from his father’s perspective,” says Graham. “Whenever he talked about his father, there was a real sense of gravity and, dare I say, an element of fear — a little bit — in his voice. So it was obviously the perception of the man his father was… So that’s what I based it on.”

Graham tried to balance the gravity of the role with the supervision of his young co-star, Matthew Anthony Pellicano, who played Bruce as a child.

“Don’t forget that you’re waiting between takes, and you have the severity and depth and gravitas of the character you play in a man with deep thoughts in his head,” he explains. Graham. “And a strong sense of foreboding, but still, I’m with a seven-year-old boy, and it’s his first time in a movie, so I have to make it fun for him. So it’s this beautiful duality of the two things… You have to make it adorable. You have an obligation because you want him to try it again.”

Graham describes an almost mystical energy while filming a climactic reconciliation scene between Bruce and his father.

“I don’t want to sound pretentious, but there was an alchemy in that space,” he says Graham. “And we just jumped into it. And me and Jeremy we barely spoke. But there was a huge connection and a feeling that we had. Jeremy He’s a wonderful actor. He is so dedicated. He embodies bruce in a way that I think is, dare I say, metamorphosis.”

Bruce Springsteen was present in the darker domestic scenes, but gave Graham space to work.

“bruce It didn’t get in the way at all,” he says. Graham. “From my point of view, he was just another source of knowledge that I could tap into if I wanted to. Sometimes, at the end of a scene or something, he would just put his hand on my shoulder and smile at me and nod. And to me, it was him telling me, ‘Thank you, very good.’ … One of the most beautiful moments was when we were filming the scene where the children run through the field and that huge house on the hill. And he came up to me and said, ‘Wow, that’s the Doug‘. I was like, ‘Really?’ And there was a kind of smile on his face.”

Graham says that any continuation of Adolescence it won’t happen anytime soon.

“If we decide to visit this world again at some later point, it will be a completely different story,” he says. Graham. “I think this story is told in its entirety now. There’s no other place this story can go. We were able to achieve our goal, which was to create a dialogue… To be part of something that raises consciousness, and awareness, was just unimaginable, to be honest. And I feel very honored and extremely blessed to be part of something like that.”

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