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Jeremy Allen White knows how important his relationship with his two daughters is in his life.
When White, 34, spoke with PEOPLE recently about his new movie Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, the actor cited his daughters — Ezer, 7, and Dolores, 4, with ex-wife Addison Timlin — as who he turns to when he wants to tune out all the noise surrounding his high-profile acting career.
“I’m very lucky. I’m a similar age to the age that Bruce [Springsteen] was during this time, but I have two young children, and there’s nothing that will like humble you or ground you faster than being in the presence of your young kids,” White says.
The actor and his ex-wife, Timlin, 34, met as teenagers and got married in 2019; after welcoming their two daughters, Timlin filed for divorce from White in 2023, and the couple share joint custody of their children. (She’s now dating actor-director Cooper Raiff; White, meanwhile, is rumored to be dating his The Bear costar Molly Gordon.)
“So I’m very lucky in that sense, you know?” White adds of life as a parent. “This business is very exciting and I think it can be easy for people to get carried away or lose sense of themselves, but I’ve got two beings in my life at this age that keep me very familiar with myself. So I’m very lucky there.”
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White recently mentioned in an interview with the U.K.’s The Times that filming the movie felt “incredibly difficult,” in part because he was “far from my children” and was not able to visit home frequently. Despite the success he’s seen in recent years, the actor said his “normal life is very simple.”
“After a while, people will stop following you once they realize that all you do is pick up your kids from school and come home,” he said of public attention on his family.
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In Deliver Me from Nowhere, White portrays a young Springsteen on the verge of global superstardom as he writes and records the unorthodox 1982 album Nebraska, during an emotionally fraught period of his life.
“I don’t remember a time when I was unfamiliar with Bruce,” he says of his longtime fandom for the rock star.
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is in theaters now.
