Bruce Springsteen appeared Sunday at the New York Film Festival premiere of his biopic, "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere," where he surprised the audience with a performance of "Land of Hope and Dreams."
Springsteen shared a video of the performance on Instagram, thanking the audience for coming out before the performance, and then gave shoutouts to the film’s cast and director, Scott Cooper.
He noted Jeremy Allen White, who plays him on the big screen, put "his whole heart and soul in the part," adding, he did a wonderful job "playing a much better-looking version of me."
Ahead of the screening, White spoke to "Good Morning America" on the carpet and shared Springsteen's impact on his life.
"I don't remember a time when I didn't know Bruce Springsteen. I don't remember a time when I wasn't hearing him on the radio," he said.
At the premiere, Springsteen also thanked Jeremy Strong, who plays his manager Jon Landau, for his "creativity and his inspiration," noting, "He played a much, much better looking Jon Landau."
In an interview with "GMA," Strong called Landau a "north star" to Springsteen.
"Jon is an incredibly learned man," Strong said. "He is an authority on music, an authority on our history [and] he has an encyclopedic understanding of music, of literature, of cinema."
Springsteen shouted out actor Stephen Graham as well "for being the living embodiment of my late father," and Gabby Hoffman for playing his mom, noting, "They’re all gone now, so it’s nice to have this piece of film."
The "Born to Run" artist also shared some "last thoughts" before the song.
"These days, we have daily events reminding us of the fact that we’re living through these particularly dangerous times," Springsteen shared. "I spent my life on the road. I’ve been moving around the world as kind of a musical ambassador for America, trying to measure the distance between American reality, where we’ve often fallen short of our ideals of the American dream."
He added, "Seeing that America, as battered as she feels right now, but for a lot of folks out there, she continues to be a land of hope and dreams, not of fear or divisiveness or government censorship or hatred. ... That America is worth fighting for."
Also in attendance at the NYFF premiere of the film were E Street Band member Steven Van Zandt, Odessa Young, Whoopi Goldberg, Clive Davis, Taylor Hill, Molly Sims and more.
"Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" hits theaters and IMAX on Oct. 24. Tickets for IMAX screenings are on sale now.
ABC News' Casey DelBasso and Nidhi Singh contributed to this report.
