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

Pitt, 61, asked Buckley’s mother, Mary Guibert, for permission to create the biopic in 2000 after inviting her to his wedding to Jennifer Aniston, a request she initially granted before later changing her mind. Speaking to Variety, Guibert joked: “If there’s 20 people calling you, and Brad Pitt is one of them, who are you gonna pick to go see?”

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 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.

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,