Mary Guibert, mother of Jeff Buckley, recalled Brad Pitt's efforts to make a movie about her son, and her reservations about the actor playing him.
reports, Pitt was working hard to get a Buckley film off the ground in the early 2000s, just a few yearsin 1997 from drowning in a Memphis river. Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, said Pitt’s efforts to court her approval included inviting her to lunch at his home, and even his wedding to Jennifer Aniston.
Pitt wasn’t the only person eager to play Buckley, but as Guibert said, “If there’s 20 people calling you, and Brad Pitt is one of them, who are you gonna pick to go see?” But Guibert ultimately had too many reservations about Pitt, and just didn’t see how the actor could transform into her son. “We’re going to dye your hair, put brown contact lenses on those baby blues, and you’re going to open your mouth and Jeff’s voice is going to come out?” she recalled telling Pitt at the time.
While that biopic never did come about, Pitt stayed in touch with Guibert over the years and wound up executive producing Amy Berg’s, which premieres today, Jan. 24, at Sundance. The actor and producer was also reportedly involved in efforts to digitize and preserve Buckley’s belongings and archive. As for Berg, the Oscar-nominated documentarian was originally interested in making her own narrative film about Buckley, before Guibert gave her access to the musician’s archive. “Once I started listening to his voicemail messages and his DAP player and demos and reading his journals, I just couldn’t imagine it being anything but a documentary,” Berg said. “And I just didn’t know how you could kind of replicate Jeff in that scripted sense.”Neko Case Never Wanted to Write a Tell-All.
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