Jeff Buckley. (Photograph by Gie Knaeps/Getty Pictures
The mom of the late musician Jeff Buckley, who drowned within the Wolf River in Could 1997, had motive to show down Brad Pitt’s request to play the singer-songwriter in a biopic years in the past.
“We’re going to dye your hair, put brown contact lenses on these child blues, and also you’re going to open your mouth and Jeff’s voice goes to come back out?” a skeptical Mary Guibert advised Variety of the star in an interview revealed on Saturday, January 25.
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Even though Pitt invited Guibert to his wedding ceremony to ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, Guibert wouldn’t budge. The pair stored talking about the opportunity of a movie about Buckley’s life, and with the assistance of director Amy Berg, finally landed on the easiest way to pay tribute to the late musician: a documentary.
“As soon as I began listening to his voicemail messages and his DAP participant and demos and studying his journals, I simply couldn’t think about it being something however a documentary,” Berg defined to the outlet. “And I simply didn’t know the way you would sort of replicate Jeff in that scripted sense.”
The result’s the documentary It’s By no means Over, Jeff Buckley, which premiered on the 2025 Sundance Movie Competition on Friday, January 24.
The son of Guibert and musician Tim Buckley, who left when his son was six months outdated and later died of a drug overdose at age 28, the youthful Buckley signed a three-album cope with Columbia Data in 1992 for nearly $1 million. He launched his solely document, Grace, in 1994 however struggled to deal with the overwhelming reward from followers and musicians he admired, like his idol Bob Dylan.
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His loss of life three years later was, as Selection put it, “shrouded in thriller.” Rolling Stone revealed an investigation into what went unsuitable that night time however failed to incorporate Buckley’s post-mortem outcomes, one thing that Berg believes “contributed to the legacy that Jeff in all probability overdosed.” As a substitute, the singer drowned because of the large river’s robust undertow.
“One of many nice issues about Jeff Buckley is you uncover him whenever you’re meant to find him,” Berg additionally mentioned of the singer, who continues to be maybe finest recognized for his cowl of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”
“He has undoubtedly made a big effect on TikTok, the place I used to be stunned to see that he has extra followers on the Jeff Buckley hashtag than even Bob Dylan,” she continued. “He’s undoubtedly having one other second in popular culture historical past.”
