The mother at the end of the musician Jeff Buckleywho drowned in the Wolf river in May 1997, had a good reason to refuse Brad Pitt Ask to play the singer-songwriter in a biopic years ago.

“We are going to dye your hair, put brown contact lenses on these blues babies, and you are going to open the mouth and the voice of Jeff will come out?” a skeptical Mary Guibert said Variety of the star in an interview published on Saturday 25 January.

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Despite the fact that Pitt invited Guibert to his wedding to the ex-wife Jennifer AnistonGuibert would not move. The pair continued to talk about the possibility of a film on Buckley’s life and the help of the director Amy BergFinally landed on the best way to pay tribute to musician fire: a documentary.

“Once I started listening to his vocal messages and his DAP player and his demos and reading his newspapers, I couldn’t imagine that it was something other than a documentary,” said Berg at the exit. “And I just didn’t know how you could somehow reproduce Jeff in this scripted sense.”

The result is the documentary It’s never over, Jeff Buckleywhich was presented at first at the Film Film Sundance 2025 on Friday, January 24.

Guibert’s son and musician Tim BuckleyWho left when his son was six months old and later died of a drug overdose at 28, the youngest Buckley signed a three album contract with Columbia Records in 1992 for nearly a million dollars. He released his only album, Grace, in 1994, but had trouble managing the overwhelming praise of fans and musicians he admired, like his idol Bob Dylan.

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His death three years later was, as Variety said, “wrapped in mystery”. Roller published an investigation In what was wrong that night, but did not include the results of Buckley’s autopsy, something Berg believes “contributed to the inheritance that Jeff probably overdose”. Instead, the singer drowned due to the strong strength of the massive river.

“One of the big things about Jeff Buckley is that you find out when you are supposed to discover it,” also said Berg about the singer, who may be even better known for her cover of Leonard Cohen “Alleluia.”

“He definitely had a big impact on Tiktok, where I was surprised to see that he has more followers on the Hashtag Jeff Buckley than even Bob Dylan,” she continued. “He definitely has another moment in the history of pop culture.”