Jeremy Allen White wants his name back

The Bear star Jeremy Allen White has admitted he would like to meet an actor named Jeremy White so he can ask for his name back because he’s tired of having to use ‘Allen’ professionally.

Jeremy Allen White wants to meet the other actor named Jeremy White so he can ask for his name back.

The Bear star was unable to register the name Jeremy White with the Screen Actors Guild because there was another actor on the books using that moniker so he had to insert his middle name Allen for all of his acting projects, but Jeremy is still hoping he will be able to ditch it one day.

He told Vanity Fair magazine: “It does feel like people are talking about someone I don’t know [when they use Jeremy Allen White].

“I’d be very interested [to meet him, Jeremy White]. I could talk to him and maybe see if he could allow me to have Jeremy White back.”

During the interview, the actor went on to reveal he feels lucky to have found success later in life.

He explained: “I think it’s always going to come back to me feeling lucky that I was able to work for a very long time in my late teens and throughout my 20s without having the burden of being a very public person.

“Shameless was a popular TV show, but nobody ever wanted to interview me or anything. And if they did, I would catch myself doing like a Sean Penn impression – or, like, my understanding of Sean Penn. Trying to come off as over it in some way, or tough in some way.

“The Bear has taken me to a different level, but I’m lucky that it’s in my early 30s, where I think I feel a bit more settled in myself, and I don’t feel like I need to put on any self-serious or troubled attitudes.”

Jeremy’s latest project is playing Bruce Springsteen in new biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere, but he’s admitted filming the movie was difficult because he had to be away from his daughters and put himself in “painful places” to accurately portray The Boss.

He told The Sunday Times newspaper: “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’.”