We’re going to dye your hair, put [on] brown contact lenses... and Jeff’s voice is going to come out?” Buckley's mom recalled once asking Pitt

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.

The 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,

For more than two decades, filmmakers chased the lightning-in-a-bottle story of Jeff Buckley, one of the most gifted and promising musicians of his generation, who drowned in a Memphis river in May 1997 at the age of 30.

Mary Guibert had reservations about Pitt portraying her son — though the actor did executive produce Amy Berg's new doc on the late musician

Brad Pitt initially sought permission from Jeff Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, to star in a biopic about the late musician nearly two decades ago.

Brad Pitt has always wanted to make a film on late musician Jeff Buckley, but he just couldn’t get a go ahead. Now, finally that a documentary has been made up on the artist, his mother

Brad Pitt seemingly failed to get permission from the late singer Jeff Buckley's mother to portray her son in the upcoming documentary.In a conversation with Variety magazine, the deceased musician's mom,

Brad Pitt once sought to star in a Jeff Buckley biopic, but his mother chose a documentary instead, honouring his legacy through It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley.