Jeremy Allen White opened up about how he handles being an in-demand Hollywood actor while raising his two daughters.
The 2-time Emmy Award-winning star of The Bear shares daughters Ezer Billie, 6, and Dolores Wild, 4, together with his ex-wife, Addison Timlin. (The couple separated in 2023 after three years of marriage and Timlin filed for divorce in May of that 12 months.)
White’s most up-to-date high-profile role was playing legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen within the biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, which chronicles the musician’s battles together with his record label while making the landmark 1982 album Nebraska. (The Scott Cooper-directed movie is predicated on creator Warren Zanes’ 2023 book Deliver Me from Nowhere and likewise contains a leading performance from Jeremy Strong as Springsteen’s manager, Jon Landau.)
Chatting with London’s The Times, White, 34, admitted that the demands of playing Springsteen took its toll on every facet of his life — including fatherhood.
“I feel like I’m ‘pain for hire,’” he joked. “Like I’m getting paid to place myself in painful places. On The Bear, it’s not like I walk around punching partitions and screaming in my closet. But I stay near that energy and it’s uncomfortable — and filming the Bruce movie was incredibly difficult. I used to be in isolation. I used to be removed from my children. I didn’t travel home much. It made me unwell and once I got here out of it I believed, ‘There must be a greater way.’”
White admitted to facing more “scrutiny [with] something happening in my personal life that has been of interest” since The Bear became successful, though he’s tried to maintain life together with his children as grounded as possible.
“After some time, people will stop following you once they realise that every one you do is pick up your kids from school and are available home. My life — my normal life — may be very easy,” he insisted.
White likened his every day routine to another parent when he’s not on a Hollywood film set.
“Like today. I made breakfast for my daughters, took them to highschool and later I’ll pick them up and make dinner,” he explained.
White joked that, unlike the achieved chef he plays on The Bear, he only has “seven dinner dishes I do well, and three my children enjoy.”
“You do the prep, then they take a bite and just ask for chicken nuggets,” he teased.
Jeremy Allen White and Addison Timlin in January 2023. Matt Winkelmeyer/FilmMagic
White has traditionally been reluctant to debate his private life, though he did make a rare comment in regards to the breakdown of his marriage to Timlin, 34, after she filed for divorce in 2023. He told British GQ that 2023 was an “insane” 12 months with “lots of high highs [and] lots of terribly low lows.”
“With every thing happening in my personal life, I believed, ‘OK, let’s just pump the brakes typically, and possibly you don’t work for some time,’” he explained in November 2023. “I made this selection to not work for the remaining of the 12 months and just be with my daughters and just slow all of it down.”
White briefly entered right into a relationship with Rosalía following his divorce from Timlin, before splitting with the Spanish singer, 33, in mid-2024. Still, the actor showed his respect for Rosalía in an October interview when he was asked to call his favorite Spanish music artist.
Yes, chef! Fans quickly fell for Jeremy Allen White after the premiere of Hulu’s The Bear — however the leading man was already off the market. White met his wife, Addison Timlin, once they were teens filming 2008’s Afterschool, which also starred Ezra Miller and Michael Stuhlbarg. While it’s unclear when their relationship drifted out […]
“Rosa, Rosalía, I really like a lot, she’s wonderful. She’s flamenco,” White told Spain’s Los 40 radio station. “Otherwise, no, nothing’s coming to mind, not at once.”
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere premieres in U.S. theaters on October 24.