{"id":2634,"date":"2025-03-25T16:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2025-03-27T18:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T18:20:58","slug":"humble-stephen-graham-left-in-tears-after-beautiful-text-from-music-superstar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/humble-stephen-graham-left-in-tears-after-beautiful-text-from-music-superstar\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble Stephen Graham left in tears after \u2018beautiful\u2019 text from music superstar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actor Stephen Graham has shared a very personal and touching text message he received from an icon (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Adolescence<\/a> star Stephen Graham<\/a> has revealed he was reduced to tears by a \u2018beautiful\u2019 text from music icon Bruce Springsteen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 51-year-old British actor, who is currently dominating water-cooler conversation around the world<\/a> thanks to the powerful Netflix drama<\/a>, has been cast as Springsteen\u2019s late father Douglas \u2018Dutch\u2019 Springsteen in the Born in the USA hitmaker\u2019s upcoming biopic, Deliver Me From Nowhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Springsteen Senior died in 1998, and his rock star son sent a message to thank Graham for his stunning performance, after watching him in action on set one day during the shoot.<\/p>\n

\u2018[Bruce] sent me the most gorgeous text I’ve ever had in my life because I play his dad when his dad’s like, I play him in the eighties,\u2019 the Line of Duty<\/a> actor explained of his small but crucial role in the much-anticipated movie, opposite Jeremy Allen White<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Recalling the day, he told the Soundtracking podcast with Edith Bowman<\/a>: \u2018So I was dead serious and we did this scene and it was a really beautiful little scene. It was lovely, but I had to get the flight.<\/p>\n

\u2018So, I had to rip the prosthetics off and I’m in the car and I’m racing to get to the airport and I got this text. And the text was so beautiful and just said, \u201cBetter than any award that I could ever receive in my life.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

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Bruce Springsteen praised Graham’s performance as his own father in biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere as like ‘seeing him again’ (Picture: Gus Stewart\/Redferns)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Graham went on to praise Springsteen as a \u2018working-class hero\u2019 and \u2018an icon to thousands of millions\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018And his text just said, \u201cThank you so much. You know, my father passed away a while ago and I felt like I saw him today and thank you for giving me that memory.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, the Bafta-nominated star was overcome at receiving such a personal and touching confession from Springsteen.<\/p>\n

\u2018I was crying reading the text, do you know what I mean? It was beautiful. You couldn’t ask for anything more, you know, to share that with someone was gorgeous. He’s a lovely man.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Allen White is starring as Bruce himself, with Graham comparing him to Al Pacino an Robert De Niro (Picture: 20th Century Studios)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Graham also had impressive things to say about his \u2018unbelievable\u2019 co-star White, maintaining that \u2018working with him is like working with the presence of Al Pacino and De Niro back in the day\u2019 \u2013 and Graham has some insight, having acted opposite both in 2019\u2019s The Irishman<\/a> for director Martin Scorsese.<\/a><\/p>\n

In fact, he previously became tearful on the radio recently when recounting how he told his father he would be acting with De Niro<\/a> after growing up with a poster of Taxi Driver on his wall.<\/p>\n

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Springsteen has been involved with the making of the much-anticipated movie (Picture: Bobby Bank\/GC Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He marvelled: \u2018Can you imagine what that phone call was like?\u2019<\/p>\n

The Boiling Point<\/a> star also revealed to Bowman how he got into character as Dutch by listening to Springsteen read the audiobook version of his memoir, Born to Run.<\/p>\n

The actor shared of a conversation about the role he had on set with Springsteen: \u2018I said to him, \u201cAre you aware that when you speak about your dad in your book, you kind of change the tone of your voice and you take on this persona?\u201d. And he was like, \u201cReally?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2018I said, \u201cYeah,\u201d and I said, \u201cAnd that’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to just basically mimic that sound and that persona that you do and inhabit it and try and create my own character.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n

He also disclosed that Deliver Me From Nowhere director Scott Cooper, who also wrote the screenplay, penned the part of Dutch with Graham in mind.<\/p>\n

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Actor Stephen Graham has shared a very personal and touching text message he received from an icon (Picture: Getty) Adolescence star Stephen Graham has revealed he was reduced to tears by a \u2018beautiful\u2019 text from music icon Bruce Springsteen. The 51-year-old British actor, who is currently dominating water-cooler conversation around the world thanks to the powerful Netflix drama, has been cast as Springsteen\u2019s late father Douglas \u2018Dutch\u2019 Springsteen in the Born in the USA hitmaker\u2019s upcoming biopic, Deliver Me From … Continue reading “Humble Stephen Graham left in tears after \u2018beautiful\u2019 text from music superstar”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}