Jeff Buckley. (Photo by Gie Knaeps/Getty Images
The mother of the late musician Jeff Buckleywho drowned in the Wolf River in May 1997, had a good reason to reject yourself Brad Pitts Please play the singer-songwriter in a biopic years ago.
“We will color your hair, put brown contact lenses on this baby blues and you will open your mouth and Jeff’s voice will come out?” A skeptical Mary Guibert told diversity of the star in an interview that was published on Saturday, January 25th.
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Despite the fact that Pitt Guibert invited to the ex-wife for his wedding Jennifer AnistonGuibert would not move. The couple kept talking about the possibility of a film about Buckley’s life and with the help of the director Amy Bergfinally landed on the best way to pay tribute to the late musician: a documentary.
“When I started to hear his VoiceMail messages and his DAP player and his demos and read his magazines, I just couldn’t imagine that it is anything but a documentary,” said Berg the Outlet. “And I just didn’t know how to somehow replicate Jeff in this scripted sense.”
The result is the documentary It’s never over, Jeff Buckleythat had its premiere on Friday, January 24th, at the Sundance Film Festival 2025.
The son of Guibert and musician Tim BuckleyThe younger Buckley, who was six months old at the age of 28 and later died of an overdose of drugs, signed a three-album contract with Columbia Records for almost $ 1 million in 1992. He published his only record, Grace, in 1994, but struggled to overwhelm the overwhelming praise of fans and musicians, which he admired, like his idol Bob Dylan.
According to the film’s director, Ed Zwick, there was apparently tension with Brad Pitt on the set of the film legends of the film from 1994. In an excerpt from Zwick’s new memoirs, hits, flops and other illusions: My forty years in Hollywood wrote that the director wrote that It fell to the producer Marshall Herskovitz to ().
His death three years later, as Variety put it, was “in the secret.” Rab published an investigation Buckley’s autopsy results could not have included in what went wrong that night, which Berg believes that “Jeff probably overdosed”. Instead, the singer drowned due to the strong contract of the massive river.
“One of the great things on Jeff Buckley is that you discover him if you want to discover him,” said Berg also about the singer, who may still be known for his cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Halleluja.”
“He definitely has a big influence on Tikkok, where I was surprised to see that he has more supporters on the Jeff Buckley Hashtag than Bob Dylan,” she continued. “He definitely has another moment in the history of pop culture.”
