The Boss, meet The Bear.

As part of Jeremy Allen White‘s preparation to play Bruce Springsteen in Deliver Me From Nowhere, a biopic about the making of 1982’s acoustic classic Nebraska, he’s been communicating with the New Jersey legend. While talking to Variety at a pre-Olympics party in Paris, The Bear star shared that he and Springsteen have now “texted and emailed.” (Springsteen is “a boss” at texting, in case you were wondering.) They’re hoping to meet for the first time after the billionaire’s sold-out show at London’s Wembley Stadium on Sunday.