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"Penn Badgley has opened up about his starring role as Jeff Buckley in Greetings From Tim Buckley. The film recounts the days leading up to Jeff&amp;#039;s 1991 tribute concert for his late father Tim Buckley (Ben Rosenfield), also starring Imogen Poots, Kate Nash, Frank Wood, Frank Bello, William Sadler and Norbert Leo Butz.   Badgley admitted to New York Magazine&amp;#039;s Vulture that he knew he could portray the late musician on the big screen. &amp;quot;I have to choose my words carefully, but I mean this in just the most plain way - I knew I could do it,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I was not concerned about the singing. I was concerned about doing it in the right way, because I actually can imitate him more than I did in the movie. I could have maybe focused more on the mimicry.  &amp;quot;But I decided not to. I decided the most important thing was to open up different parts of myself that maybe he was opening up during that time. &amp;quot;And in some strange way, I was doing things at the time that were eerily reminiscent of this particular story.&amp;quot; When asked to elaborate more on the comparison between him and Buckley, the Gossip Girl actor explained: &amp;quot;Just, a lot of the things that were happening to him at that time, like falling in love, for instance. Meeting people, playing music for the first time. Dealing with your family. We all have imperfect relationships with our parents, and I knew where he was coming from.&amp;quot;      Badgley also revealed details on how he prepared for the role, which got positive reviews after it premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. &amp;quot;I would meditate on words like &amp;#039;feline&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;feminine&amp;#039;, because he&amp;#039;s like a feral cat,&amp;quot; Badgley shared. &amp;quot;What made him so beautiful is that he was a man, but he was so feminine, too. He was gentle, but he also had such rage. &amp;quot;I had to take all of his energy in. I wasn&amp;#039;t going to augment my voice and sound like Michael Jackson the whole time, because Jeff had a very high speaking voice, a full octave higher than mine.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a little more muscular than he was, I wasn&amp;#039;t quite as thin. My hair wasn&amp;#039;t as long as it was at that time, but it also looked a little like the Grace cover. &amp;quot;I think this is interesting for anybody playing [a real person], what choices you make and how you choose to go.  &amp;quot;Because like, Jamie Foxx [in Ray], you&amp;#039;re like, &amp;#039;That&amp;#039;s not Jamie Foxx, it&amp;#039;s Ray Charles&amp;#039;. Whereas for me, I had to find myself and do the parts of me that were like Jeff because we were not making a movie where an impersonation was the story we&amp;#039;re telling, you know?&amp;quot;  Greetings From Tim Buckley has no release date confirmed yet. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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