A "Gossip Girl" star becomes Jeff Buckley: "I was not his most rabid fan"

Penn Badgley didn't go into his role as the late singer Jeff Buckley with much of a plan. "I did not have any clear-cut method to the point that sometimes I’d be like, 'What the fuck am I doing?,'" he told Salon at his hotel recently before a Tribeca Film Festival screening of "Greetings From Tim Buckley." Indeed, a competing Buckley biopic titled "Mystery White Boy," endorsed by Buckley's mother, Mary Guibert, and set to star "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" stage actor Reeve Carney, is in development at present. Up until the closing concert, there's far more acting than there is singing in "Greetings From Tim Buckley," something that suited Badgley fine. Referring to a documentary Guibert had made about Buckley, Algrant said: "Mary made a movie about Jeff Buckley, but she didn’t mention Tim Buckley in it."