Robert Pattinson Set To Ruin More Films, This Time Involving Dead Singers When looking for someone to act as the once-prodigious, now-dead Jeff Buckley why not go for talent on the level of Robert Pattinson? After all, he is an actor lacking any discernable passion, he is attractive in a thoroughly mediocre way and he's generally a bit crap. It's a perfect fit for the lead role in the still-vaunted biopic of Jeff Buckley. Especially if Pattinson is into method acting and decides to do his own stunts. In the drowning scene. Too harsh?