To the world, he is hunky Jeremy Allen White.
But the star, 34, dropped a bombshell about his famous moniker in a new interview with Vanity Fair.
White revealed he doesn’t actually go by his full name and only added his middle name due to an existing ‘Jeremy White’ who once registered with the SAG-AFTRA union.Â
‘That’s not how I understand myself,’ he told the publication from his Los Angeles home in a Zoom interview. ‘It does feel like people are talking about someone I don’t know.’
Fans came to know and love the actor as ‘Jeremy Allen White’ after he joined the cast of Hulu’s The Bear – a role which catapulted him to fame.
He’s now starring as another iconic name in the new biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.
Jeremy Allen White has dropped a bombshell about his real name in an interview with Vanity FairÂ
The film chronicles the life of the legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen as he struggles to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past while recording his album ‘Nebraska’ in the early 1980s.
But White has confessed that he struggled with playing the version of The Boss that was isolated and depressed, with those feelings leaking over into his own psyche.
White admitted he was pleased that shooting was over, after finding it ‘incredibly difficult’ to film and be away from his daughters – Ezer, seven, and Dolores, four.
He candidly said: ‘I feel like I’m pain for hire. Like I’m getting paid to put myself in painful places.
‘On The Bear, it’s not like I walk around punching walls and screaming in my closet. But I stay close to that energy, and it’s uncomfortable — and filming the Bruce movie was incredibly difficult.
‘I was in isolation. I was far from my children. I didn’t travel home much. It made me unwell, and when I came out of it, I thought, “There has to be a better way”.’Â
Recently Springsteen detailed his guilt over watching White star as him on set.
Speaking on The Graham Norton Show, Springsteen admitted that he had a lot of involvement in the filming of the movie and often showed up on set, leaving Jeremy feeling a little on edge at first.
But the star, 34, dropped a bombshell about his name in a new interview with Vanity Fair
White’s star really rose after his lead role in Hulu’s The Bear
He’s now starring as another iconic name in the new biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
He told host Norton: ‘I was on set a lot. I felt really guilty about that because not only did Jeremy have to play me, but he had to play me while I am sitting right there watching him.
‘He was incredibly tolerant and generous of me, for which I am grateful. I had a great time.’
White then confessed: ‘In the beginning, I didn’t know what to expect and I was a bit nervous.
‘You’re trying to drum up some delusion and imagination, and seeing the man you are playing in the corner was hard.
‘But then he came so often it became normal.’ before jokingly adding: ‘I think if he had given me notes it might have broken me.’
Springsteen interjects: ‘He prepared in private, so I stayed away. On set, I rarely said anything, I just enjoyed myself.’
