Brad Pitt was blocked from playing major singer in biopic by musician’s mom

Brad Pitt as soon as eyed the function of the late musician Jeff Buckley for a biopic, even discussing the undertaking with Buckley’s mom, Mary Guibert.

Pitt, who had invited Guibert to his 2000 wedding ceremony to Jennifer Aniston and to lunch at his Los Feliz house, initially obtained her blessing to make the movie.

Nevertheless, Guibert later retracted her approval, expressing doubts about any actor, together with the Wolf’s star, portraying her son.

“If there’s 20 folks calling you, and Brad Pitt is certainly one of them, who’re you gonna choose to go see?” Guibert informed Selection, reflecting on the high-profile curiosity in her son’s story.

She additionally questioned the feasibility of Pitt reworking into her son: “We will dye your hair, put brown contact lenses on these child blues, and you are going to open your mouth and Jeff’s voice goes to come back out?”

Amy stayed true to her roots and created a documentary about Jeff after Mary granted her entry to his archives.

The filmmaker realized that the documentary format was the easiest way to share Jeff’s story and honor his legacy.

Thus, Amy produced “It is By no means Over, Jeff Buckley,” which debuted at Sundance on Jan. 24. The movie is presently being showcased on the pageant and is searching for distributors.

“As soon as I began listening to his voicemail messages and his DAP participant and demos and studying his journals, I simply could not think about it being something however a documentary,” Amy remarked. “And I simply did not know the way you might form of replicate Jeff in that scripted sense.”

Brad took on the function of government producer for the documentary and likewise helped digitize and protect Jeff’s private gadgets.

Jeff hailed from Orange County, California, born to Mary and the folks and jazz musician Tim Buckley. Tim had been estranged from Jeff, having left earlier than his son’s delivery.

They met solely as soon as earlier than Tim succumbed to a heroin overdose in 1975 on the age of 28. Music enveloped Jeff’s upbringing; he was raised by his mom, a classically skilled pianist and cellist, and his stepfather, Ron Moorhead, who launched him to the sounds of Led Zeppelin, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and Pink Floyd.

He gained fame for his cowl of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, which was featured on his debut album, Grace.

The proficient artist tragically drowned within the Memphis River in 1997 earlier than he may full his second album, My Sweetheart the Drunk.

The unfinished album was later launched posthumously in 1998 underneath the title, Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk.