“One of the great pleasures on the Jersey Shore in 1975 was night swimming, preferably naked with someone you wanted to have sex with,” he said. “Steven Spielberg f–ked that up. He f–ked it up good.”
Bruce Springsteen had a complaint for Steven Spielberg at a benefit honoring the director: Jaws had made skinny dipping on the Jersey Shore a lot harder to enjoy.
Speaking at MoMA and Chanel’s 18th Annual Film Benefit in New York on November 12, Springsteen recalled what the shore was like when the shark movie arrived in 1975.
Springsteen then drew on their 30-year friendship and his visits aboard Spielberg’s boat. He compared it to the bigger boat needed in Jaws, with an upgrade: “He’s got that, only much nicer.”
For all that access to the ocean, Springsteen said he’d never seen Spielberg get in the water. Even the pool aboard the boat went unused by its owner, according to his friend.
“Steven Spielberg does not go in that f–king pool,” Springsteen said. “I’m not sure I’ve seen him in a bathing suit.”
