LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 12: Stephen Graham attends a special screening of “Adolescence” at BAFTA … More
Adolescence star Stephen Graham’s next big role will be playing the father of Bruce Springsteen in the rock icon’s biopic starring Jeremy Allen White as The Boss.
Graham plays Eddie Miller, the father of Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), a 13-year-old boy accused of stabbing a female classmate to death in Netflix’s hit drama Adolescence.
The four-episode limited series chronicles in real-time four separate days in the case, which begins with the arrest and interrogation of Jamie, and concludes 13 months later with Eddie and his family still trying to cope with the tragedy as the teen prepares to go to trial.
While Graham, Cooper and company continue to win accolades for Adolescence, the veteran film and television actor continues his work as Douglas “Dutch” Springsteen on Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper’s Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere opposite The Bear star White.
The logline for Deliver Me from Nowhere notes that the film follows “Bruce Springsteen’s journey crafting his 1982 album Nebraska, which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band.”
Deliver Me from Nowhere also stars Gaby Hoffmann, Paul Walter Hauser, David Krumholtz and Marc Maron.
ROCKAWAY, NJ – NOVEMBER 01: Stephen Graham and Bruce Springsteen are seen on the set of the Bruce … More
Graham Was Moved By A Personal Text From Bruce Springsteen
During a recent interview with the podcast Soundtracking (via The Guardian), Stephen Graham shared with host Edith Bowman a personal text he received from Bruce Springsteen after his work on Deliver Me from Nowhere.
“He’s a working-class hero. He’s an icon to thousands, to millions,” Graham told Bowman of Springsteen. “And his text just said, ‘Thank 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.’”
Graham said he was overcome with emotion while reading the text from the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer.
“I was crying reading the text, do you know what I mean? Oh mate, it was beautiful,” Graham told Bowman. “You couldn’t ask for anything more, you know, to share that with someone was gorgeous. He’s a lovely man.”
Per Variety, Deliver Me from Nowhere started production in October of 2024 and is set to be released sometime in 2025.
Meanwhile, viewers can see Graham in Adolescence on Netflix. The limited series, which debuted atop Netflix’s Global TV shows chart four days after its March 13 release, placed No. 1 again in its second week of release with 42 million views, which equates to 161 million hours viewed.
In addition to Graham and Owen Cooper, Adolescence stars Ashley Walters and Faye Marsay as detectives Luke Bascombe and Misha Frank, Erin Doherty as child psychologist Briony Ariston, Christine Tremarco as Eddie’s wife, Manda, and Amelie Pease and their daughter and Jamie’s sister, Lisa.
All four episodes of Adolescence are streaming on Netflix.
