Jeremy Allen White Got More Texts About the Boss Than ‘The Bear'

My wife, kids, and I have gone to the beach every summer for the last three years. It’s great, and something our boys look forward to every year. We plan it months in advance, so it always feels far away. But then, things start happening that remind us it’s on the horizon. The weather starts getting nicer (or brutally hot, in the case of this year). Our parks are more filled with kids during the week, despite being relatively ghost towns for most of the year. And a new season of The Bear drops.

The Bear’s release schedule has lined up almost perfectly with our beach excursions for the show’s entire existence. We’re parents with wildly different schedules, and are often behind on new shows and movies. So, a late June release of The Bear means we can start diving in when we hit the beach in August, after much of the hype has died down and spoilers have (mostly) been avoided (I went into last season with my guard up about the Faks as everyone seemed to say they got more obnoxious, and that may have made them more tolerable).

This year will likely be the same, but that doesn’t mean I am immune to the stories surrounding the new season. Hype around it is substantial because it is super popular. It has made stars out of its stars. There are even rumors the show may not be picked up for a fifth season because everyone on it is so friggin busy. Many of them have already moved on to bigger things, which is really saying something given The Bear’s broad appeal. As Jeremy Allen White recently revealed, some folks are way more interested in his upcoming work (no, not being a presumably hot Hutt).

White will be playing Bruce Springsteen in an upcoming biopic, the trailer for which dropped last week. It’s a great trailer and, despite not being the biggest Springsteen fan, it got me pretty amped. People close to White were apparently way more amped. “Getting that out, it was so much pressure,” the actor explained to Jimmy Fallon last night. “You’re playing a real person — never mind Bruce Springsteen — and I was really touched [when] the trailer came out. I had more texts than when I blacked out and won that Golden Globe [for The Bear].”

The actor would go on to say, “I didn’t realize trailers were that big of a thing,” which felt like a splash of cold water in my face, as I spent most of high school visiting Apple.com/trailers. Trailers are huge, Jeremy! Haven’t you been reading Jen’s roundups? Are they bigger than a movie based on The Boss? I guess not. But that’s something we can discuss when I see you at Cape May in August.