Jeff Buckley’s mother rejected Brad Pitt’s biopic
Jeff Buckley.
(Photo by gie knaeps/getty imagesThe mother of the deceased musician Jeff Buckleywho drowned in the Wolf River in May 1997 had a good reason to reject Brad Pitts Request to play the singer-songwriter in a biopic years ago.
“We’re going to paint your hair, put brown contact lenses on those baby blues, and you are going to open your mouth and Jeff’s voice comes out?” a skeptical one Maria Guibertus told Variety Van de Ster published in an interview on Saturday, January 25.
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Despite the fact that Pitt Guibert invited before his marriage to ex-wife Jennifer AnistonGuibert did not shrink. The pair kept talking about the possibility of a film about Buckley’s life, and with the help of the director Amy BergEventually ended up in the best way to pay tribute to the deceased musician: a documentary.
“Once I started listening to his voicemail messages, his DAP player and demos and started reading his diaries, I could no longer imagine that it would be something other than a documentary,” Berg explained to the outlet. “And I just didn’t know how to replicate Jeff in that script -like sense.”
The result is the documentary It’s never over, Jeff BuckleyWho premiered on Friday 24 January at the Sundance Film Festival 2025.
The son of Guibert and musician Tim BuckleyHe left when his son was six months old and later died of an overdose of drugs at the age of 28, the younger Buckley in 1992 signed a deal for three albums at Columbia Records for nearly $ 1 million. He released his only record, Grace, in 1994, but had trouble with the overwhelming praise of fans and musicians he admired, just like his idol. Bob Dylan.
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His death three years later, as Variety put it, was “dressed in mystery.” Rolling stone published an investigation To what went wrong that evening, but he failed to include Buckley’s autopsy results, something that Berg believes that it “contributed to the inheritance that Jeff probably gave an overdose.” Instead, the singer drowned due to the strong undercurrent of the huge river.
“One of the beautiful things about Jeff Buckley is that you discover it when it is the intention that you will discover it,” Berg also said about the singer, who is perhaps best known for his cover of Leonard Cohen “Hallelujah.”
“He definitely made a big impact on Tiktok, where I was surprised to see that he has more followers on the Jeff Buckley-Hashtag than even Bob Dylan,” she continued. “He definitely experiences a new moment in the history of pop culture.”
