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Jeff Buckley’s Mom Turned Down Brad Pitt’s Biopic
The mother of the late musician Jeff Buckley explained why she turned down Brad Pitt’s request to play her son in a biopic
(Photo by Gie Knaeps/Getty ImagesThe mother of the late musician Jeff Buckley, who drowned in the Wolf River in May 1997, had a good reason to turn down Brad Pitt’s request to play the singer-songwriter in a biopic years ago. “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?” a skeptical Mary Guibert told Variety of the star in an interview published on Saturday, January 25. His death three years later was, as Variety put it, “shrouded in mystery.” Rolling Stone published an investigation into what went wrong that night but failed to include Buckley’s autopsy results, something that Berg believes “contributed to the legacy that Jeff probably overdosed.” Instead, the singer drowned due to the massive river’s strong undertow.
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