“So you are going to open the mouth of the cavity and its sound will come out like that?” : Brad Pitt dreamed of embodimenting this cursed artist, but the latter’s mother quickly cooled!

In the early 90’s, Brad Pete played a fictitious rocker on the screen with the most impressive “banana” hairstyle. Did you know that years later, the actor could give his qualities a real song legend?

Brad PittWho spoke about the enormous fraud that the French fan was a victim, dreaming of starting a film on Folk-Rocky singer Jeff Bakky, tragically disappearing at the age of 30. But the artist’s mother, the author of one album in her life (Grace1994), Refuse to grid!

It was in 2000 Brad PittWith the crowns of the seven and the success of the fighting clubs, addresses Mary Giberti, her mother Jeff BuckleTo tell her about the movie’s desire for the singer. As a variety of sites tell usThe Hollywood star does everything he can to seduce him: he invites him to Los Angeles, in his home, and is added to the VIP list for marriage to Jennifer Aniston!

Mary Giberti is reddened and departed for a film focused on her son, who died in 1997 in Mississippi waters. “If 20 people give you a phone call and there are between these 20 people Brad PittAre you going to choose who, sincerely? “He’s laughing.

“So you are going to open the mouth and the sound of Jeff will come out like that?”

What Mary Gibert has not seen coming is that if Brad Pitt Really wanted to make a movie Jeff BuckleHe also wanted to play Jeff Buckle. This was not for him, who actually had a documentary to pay tribute to his son. So Mary Gertti refused Brad Pitt !

“So you are going to dye your hair, you will put on brown contact lenses. Do you plan to open the mouth and the sound of Jeff will come out like that?”Obviously released Mary Gubert A. Brad Pitt That we imagine ourselves. It is obvious that it was unthinkable for him that an actor, Pitt or anyone, his son, gives his qualities.

25 years later, Brad Pitt otherwise puts his dream

Brad Pitt So never played Jeff Buckle In the cinema, but he stayed in contact with Mary Gubert and the idea of ​​a cursed artist was always in the air. A quarter of a century later, it was finally implemented with a documentary that was never completed, Jeff Buckley, who was in the world premiere at Sundance on January 24. A film directed by Amy Berg (who has already returned to the fate of Jenny’s Jackhead) and on which Brad PittHelping in the digital and maintenance of Buckle’s works, he performs the executive producer.

Keep in mind that in the end, only one actor portrayed Jeff Buckle On the screen, evidence that Mary Gubert has changed her mind over the years. This is Penn Badgley, Dan of the Gossip Girl Series, in the feature film Tim Buckley, which was released in 2013 and focused on the artist’s participation in a concert that was honored by his father.