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Greetings from Tim Buckley follows the story of the days leading up to Jeff Buckley’s eminent 1991 performance at his father’s tribute concert in St. Ann’s Church. Through a romance with a young woman working at the concert, he learns to embrace all of his feelings toward the father who abandoned him – longing, anger, forgiveness, and love. Culminating in a cathartic performance of his father’s most famous songs, Jeff’s debut stuns the audience and launches his career as one of the greatest young musicians of his time.

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EDIT: Since YouTube kept taking down the interview, I have uploaded the video HERE in FLV format – you will need to have BSPlayer or VLC to view it!

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DailyFinance: Penn Badgley of ‘Gossip Girl’: Investing Is ‘Greek to Me’:

Penn Badgley, who plays a stock analyst in the new film Margin Call, worries about the market. He just doesn’t put money into it.

“I don’t really believe in investing,” the Gossip Girl star tells The Price of Fame. “Whether it’s ignorant or naive or clever, who knows? But I think I was vindicated a little bit with the crash.”

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WSJ.com: In ‘Margin Call,’ Penn Badgley Succeeds in Business Without Really Trying:

Regular readers of the Wall Street Journal readers probably won’t see “Margin Call” as a hardcore business flick. No, there no fistfights, car chases or love scenes. And yes, some of the talk is about risk management, layoffs and business models. But the dialogue is mostly abstract, with no M.B.A. required to follow it. (A running joke in the film, and a handy device to aid the viewers, is that the firm’s top leaders need the complex business stuff explained to them.)

Penn, who plays a young employee at the investment firm in the movie, told Speakeasy after the screening that he didn’t feel a need to brush up on economic theory and the like to play his part.

“My role really didn’t require me to do all that,” Penn said. “I didn’t have to study.”

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MTV Hollywood Crush: Penn Badgley Talks Transformation In Jeff Buckley Biopic:

When it comes to lighting up the silver screen, there’s probably no tougher challenge for an actor than convincingly portraying another, different kind of artist—and that goes double when it’s a musician. Actors looking to convincingly play these roles have to learn to play any number of instruments, vocalize like a pro, trash a hotel room like a rockstar, and—in some cases—suffer epic, drug-fueled, occasionally murderous meltdowns as only a musician is capable of. So Penn Badgley deserves major credit for ambitiously taking on just such a project, joining the ranks of Joaquin Phoenix, Jeff Bridges and Jamie Foxx as he takes on the lead in the musical biopic, “Greetings from Tim Buckley.” And when we sat down with Penn for a chat, he described the experience as not just a challenge, but a total transformation.

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Our host, Hollywood.com uploaded a video of Penn, Stanley Tucci, and Zachary Quinto interview for Margin Call to their channel you can watch below. Thanks to @ChandlerDillon for the heads up!

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Penn will be on Live with Regis and Kelly tomorrow, October 19th (Wednesday). Check your local listings for air times!

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A thriller about the financial crisis may be the last film you’d expect to see Gossip Girl‘s Penn Badgley star in — unless, of course, you saw the pic of him occupying Wall Street a couple of weeks ago, holding a sign that said “Bring back the Glass-Steagall Act.” Then it all makes sense. We spoke to the actor about playing a greedy financial analyst, his upcoming Jeff Buckley biopic, and what he really knows about the Glass-Steagall Act.

So, are you excited about your book?
My book? Ummmm …

Sorry, I mean, your movie. Margin Call. It’s really your first serious film, no disrespect to The Stepfather.
Yeah, it’s wonderful. For me, this was a watershed experience as an actor, as a creative person, as a spiritual person, as an emotional person — just, everything about it was really wonderful. And to be working alongside such experienced, brilliant, nuanced actors was a gift. It’s a very exciting time. And it’s certainly timely, with the release.

What kind of preparation did you do? Your character is an analyst who throws around terms like VaR. Did you understand what you were talking about?
I think I was coming to a bit more of an understanding at the time, of that world, but it’s epically complicated.

Do you know what VaR is?
No. No, and I don’t need to, frankly. I think of anybody in the film, my role was really just to watch and learn and keep my head above water, and that’s basically what I was doing.

That’s true. One of the running sort of jokes of the movie was that hardly anyone at the bank understood the products that caused their undoing. And your character was especially representative of the kind of Wall Street dude who is obsessed with making money but doesn’t understand or care about the effects of what he does.

Yeah, yeah. I think if anybody represents the lowest common denominator in the film, it’s him.

So the ignorance of financial matters was a creative choice.
No. But I suppose it worked. [Laughs.] But what’s cool about the movie is that it is really trying to look at the moral ambiguities of any human situation. These people are all human at the end of the day, and I think my character, as much as he might seem without a conscience initially, he discovers how difficult and emotional some of these things can be.

You were at Occupy Wall Street recently holding a sign that said “Bring back the Glass-Steagall Act”. You know what the Glass-Steagall Act is?

I do, actually. I Googled it before I held the sign up because I felt like I had to be responsible. But somebody actually just gave me the sign and I thought, Okay, well, let me figure out what this is, briefly, and just make sure that it’s positive — and it is.

Do you remember what it is?
I certainly can’t educate anybody on the specifics of it, but I know it’s about deregulation. I think, in truth, bringing back the Glass-Steagall Act is the first of many, many, many, many steps that need to be taken. It’s not the only thing we need to be worried about. But I thought, you know, why not? If somebody sees my face holding that sign, then Googles the Glass-Steagall Act the same way I did, then that’s a good step in the right direction.

Millions of teenage girls are going to Google Glass-Steagall right now.
Yeah, why not? They Google what products I use in my hair, so why not try to influence it in a bit more educational direction?

Is Occupy Wall Street something you’re going to stay involved with? Or was that a one-off deal?
I’d like to be involved in it as much as I can. I was down there several days. There’s not one person with the answer, which the occupation is acknowledging. But there’s a beautiful, surprisingly quiet, and stable perseverance and hope to the movement. It’s not just an occupation; it’s not just a protest. It’s a movement. It’s a hopeful revolution. There are some brilliant, brilliant minds down there really trying to figure out how we as a society can find some real democracy and justice, and I think that’s incredibly important.

Like a lot of New Yorkers, you have friends who work on Wall Street. Do you argue with them about this stuff?
They’re not friends anymore.

Really?
[Laughs.] No, I’m kidding. For me, I don’t look at this as a strictly financial crisis. I think the financial crisis is symptomatic of an even larger problem and human trait. Corruption and greed is not unique to Wall Street. That is totally human. It’s much more obvious and blatant in the financial arena and in government and politics, but it’s something I think we need to confront in a sort of larger global consciousness. And the occupation is only one facet of that. It’s more of an awakening of the younger generation realizing, like, “We need to make sure we’re setting foot in the right direction.”

That’s all very wise, for “the guy from Gossip Girl.”
Yeah, well, that’s not all I am, as you will hopefully come to discover in coming years.

Your next project is the Jeff Buckley biopic. Is that done?
Yeah. It could be released — you know, I actually can’t say anything about that because there’s all sorts of politics involved. I can say, for me, creatively, musically, professionally, spiritually, emotionally, it was a really moving event for me. And a transformative experience. And I hope that that translates on-camera.

His fans are quite intense, right? Did they give you a hard time? Did they accept you or did you get a lot of hate mail for being, again, the dude from Gossip Girl?
You know, nobody was more aware of that than me. But I didn’t pay attention to anything that was online or the blogs; I stopped paying attention to that stuff a long time ago because it all becomes negative after a good five minutes. So any fans that I’ve encountered who’ve personally said something to me, in person, they were all actually glowing, because a lot of them were on set and they saw what we were doing, and what I was giving to it. A lot of people are gonna be, I think, surprised and initially disappointed, because what we did was not at all what people are expecting. But it’s the kind of thing that if you truly love Jeff for what he did, then I think you can appreciate it on a wholly different level.

Do you have any indication of how much longer Gossip Girl is gonna be on? Because you and me are tied to this together, you know, ‘cause I have to do these recaps.

[Laughs.] Yeah. I don’t think it can go past six. ’Cause that is what we’re contracted to.

So there’s no chance it’ll become The Golden Gossip Girls?
No. [Laughs.] No, I really don’t think so. But, you know, you never know.

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This month in NYLON Guys Magazine, you can see Fall’s coolest menswear modeled by actor Penn Badgley. This month in movie theaters, you can see Fall’s sharpest psychological thriller (Margin Call) acted by Penn Badgley. And right now in this article, you can read outtakes from the 24-year-old’s interview. (He’s also on NYLON TV. How’s that for full service?

In Margin Call, you act with Jeremy Irons and Kevin Spacey – and you all had a first time director, J.C. Chandor. How’d that go? He was really impressive and essentially, he knew what to do, he knew what his vision was. He knew when to stand his ground. Then he knew when to be like, "I’ll just let Kevin Spacey be Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Irons be Jeremy Irons," you know? And basically, he and I, we were comrades in the sense that we both were like [whispering] "Can you fucking believe this?"

Who was the most intimidating person on set? Jeremy [Irons]. Jeremy was an enigma on the set and in life because we didn’t know who the hell was gonna play that role until about three days before we started shooting. And then I think even three days into shooting, we didn’t know who was gonna play it. And uh, he showed up—he dresses with a very interesting flair, you know? He has an amazing sense of style and how it defines him as a person, and I think he uses it as a tool to fuck with people a little, too. He’s clearly brilliant and so many things about him are hard to articulate, but he’s enigmatic, very much in every sense of the word.

And now you’re shooting the Jeff Buckley movie. Are you allowed to talk about it? I can talk about the kind of experience it’s been. It’s incredibly moving and transformative just for me as a human being. It’s been intensely personal and this unprecedented emotional and spiritual experience for me because playing someone who’s a) real, and then b) dead, and c) a really singularly gifted musician and artist—I mean he was a seeker, he was a traveler, he was like almost a gypsy in the sense that he didn’t seem to stay in one place for too long, either growing up or in his tragically brief adult life. I think the key for me has been letting him breathe into the role and the lines and the scenes and the art and the project as much as it’ll happen, and then the rest of it is really just shooting for the same thing he shot for as opposed to shooting for him. You know what I mean?

So it’s not a biopic, exactly… It’s not a movie about his life—anybody who wants to see his life is gonna be sorely fucking disappointed. I mean, it takes place over seven days and he was 24—I mean, "Grace" didn’t come out until he was 27— so it’s a slow sort of beautiful meditation on how he found his voice and what catalyzed that, like his love, and music, women, life, dog, painting, history… I mean it’s a boy, getting an idea of who he’s going to become as a man…

Are you relieved about that? I think it’s really important for somebody like him, because he was cut short, and the notion of the brooding rocker who dies early is so romanticized but it’s also so fucked up, and he wouldn’t like that. He wouldn’t want a bullet-pointed high and low "Johnny Cash" epic story of his life, because he drowned in a freak accident when he was 30. So, it’s telling a very different story.

What have you gained from the role?  What I have learned in exploring his life, I guess, is that there’s no limitations.  Do whatever you want—just do whatever the fuck you want, and do what moves you and do what drives you.  Being on TV has been an amazing opportunity and platform, but Gossip Girl is certainly not my driving passionate force in life, obviously. And it’s wonderful to have; it’s given me the ability to explore what I want, and for that I will be forever, ever grateful.

But we have to ask – who do you think Dan’s soul mate is? Blair, actually. Definitely. I think Blair is Dan’s soul mate. I don’t know if they’re ever going to get together, but I’ll tell you that I’ve never enjoyed any scenes on the show as much as those scenes with Leighton Meester, on a strictly intellectually as an actor. There’s a whole other thing—like everything that happened early on in the show, like the obvious Dan and Serena stuff, that moved me in a different way for obvious reasons, but strictly as an actor, those scenes with Blair are the best.

My favorite were the ones with Jenny Humphrey! I miss Taylor [Momsen], she’s sweet! I’m going to get in touch with her again.

I wish she was still on the show. She’s young and I think she’ll find her way. She’s much sweeter and much smarter than anybody gives her credit for and I think she’s going to be incredibly successful at whatever she wants.

We both went snowboarding during the Roxy Chicken Jam in California. But we did different trails… I was taken to Mammoth California’s back country. Not through a tree run like you did – through a fucking forest! I was shocked at how well I did, and then I ended up getting stuck in a snow wall under a tree for like 45 minutes. I couldn’t move. I sat there for a good ten minutes and I couldn’t unstrap because I was upside-down… I was like reaching for branches and then they would break!

What’s the most surprising thing on your iPod?  Coldplay. You know, Coldplay doesn’t get enough credit. People roll their eyes at Coldplay because they’re so corporate and they sell out stadiums, but I have to say, it’s really difficult to sell out stadiums! People act like ‘oh he sold out’ and it’s like, "Fuck you dude! Try to sell out. See if you can!"

I wish you would do a play…  I saw Jerusalem and it was amazing. And Arcadia I recently saw, which was brilliant. The only difference I saw between Arcadia and Jerusalem was that Arcadia was in the mind and Jerusalem in the soul, the heart, in the earth you know?

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