'Greetings From Tim Buckley' trailer: See Penn Badgley as Jeff Buckley

In "Greetings from Tim Buckley," Gossip Girl heartthrob Penn Badgley plays the late American singer Jeff Buckley, who drowned in 1997 at the age of 30.

Badgley co-stars with Imogen Poots, in this quiet-looking, indie romance about the days before Buckley attends a tribute concert for his famous father Tim Buckley.

The film, which recently debuted at the Toronto Film Festival, still needs a distributor, so there's no release date yet.

In an interview with Vulture, Badgley described his approach to playing Buckley:

I would meditate on words like "feline" and "feminine," because he's like a feral cat. 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. I had to take all of his energy in.

A live performance of Badgley singing Buckley's "Lilac Wine" hit the web in August.