Jeff Buckley.
(Photo by Gie Knaeps/Getty ImagesThe mother of the late musician Jeff Buckleywho sank in the Wolf River in May 1997, had a good reason to refuse Of Brad Pitt request to play the songwriter in a biography years ago.
“We will coat your hair. We will put you brown contact lenses on those Baby Blues, and you will open your mouth and Jeff’s voice will come out?” skeptic Mary Guibert said Variety of the Star in an interview released on Saturday, January 25th.
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Despite the fact that Pitt invited Guibert to his wedding with his ex-wife Jennifer AnistonGuibert would not move. The duo continued to talk about the possibility of a movie about Buckley’s life and with the help of the director Amy BergFinally he found the best way to honor the late musician: a documentary.
“As soon as I started listening to his voicemail messages, the player and his demonstrations DAP and reading his diaries, I just couldn’t imagine it was anything other than a documentary,” Berg explained to the media. “And I just didn’t know how you could repeat Jeff in that sense of the scenario.”
The result is the documentary Never finished, Jeff Buckleywhich premiered at the Sundance 2025 Film Festival on Friday, January 24th.
Guibert’s son and musician My buckleywho left when his son was six months old and later died of a drug overdose at the age of 28, the youngest Buckley signed a three -album with Columbia Records in 1992 for nearly $ 1 million. He released his only album, Grace, in 1994, but tried to cope with overwhelming praise from fans and musicians he admired as his idol. Bob Dylan.
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His death three years later was, as Variety said, “covered in mystery”. Rolling Stone He published an investigation into what went wrong that night, but failed to include the results of Buckley’s autopsy, something Berg believes “contributed to the legacy that Jeff perhaps overdose.” Instead, the singer sank because of the strong underground of the river.
“One of Jeff Buckley’s best things is that you discover when you are meant to discover it,” Berg also told the singer, who is still known for his song cover. of Leonard Cohen “Aleluja.”
“He has undoubtedly had a major influence on Tiktok, where I was surprised to see that he had more followers in Jeff Buckley’s hashtag than Bob Dylan,” she continued. “He is undoubtedly going through another moment in the history of pop culture.”
