At the film’s London Film Festival premiere, White looked like a dressy cowboy in a head-to-toe Louis Vuitton look consisting of a slick black suit and a dandyish ribbon tie. Strong, meanwhile, went for investor casual-chic in a velvety, all-corduroy custom Loro Piana ensemble that included a zip-up jacket with a contrast collar made of fur (and the cuffs folded up, naughty-prep style), slim-fitting pants, and a matching baseball cap. The sartorial effect was akin to that of Strong’s character in Succession, Kendall Roy, if he were condemned to a life of bark-colored cords from Loro Piana—which, frankly, doesn’t sound all that bad.
Thus far, White and Strong have borrowed from the closets of the characters they portray in the Springsteen biopic. White with a subtle increased interest in leather jackets and deeply unbuttoned shirts, and Strong through his Stanislavski-esque adoption of newsboy caps and seventies-era tinted aviators—mainstays in Landau’s closet. In an interview at the New York premiere of the film, Strong underscored their mutual commitment to their respective roles by saying that the film was, “in a way, a love story between the two of them.”
As of now, the two are gearing up for a slightly more adversarial rapport in The Social Reckoning, with Strong preparing to take on the role of Facebook scion Mark Zuckerberg and White, that of Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horowitz. Perhaps next year we’ll spot them in Meta glasses and kooky journo-core, respectively.