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Brad Pitt’s Plans for a Jeff Buckley Biopic Were Shut Down by Musician’s Mother

Ahead of a new documentary, Jeff Buckley's mother has said she turned down Brad Pitt's plans to portray the late musician in a biopic.

“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?” Guibert says she asked Pitt. Director Amy Berg – who received an Oscar nomination for the 2006 documentary Deliver Us from Evil – later sought to move from nonfiction features to a narrative project, with Buckley as her first focus. “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,” explained Berg.

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