Courtney Love says she lost 'Fight Club' role after rejecting Brad Pitt's Kurt Cobain movie
Singer and actress Courtney Love joined Marc Maron for an interview on the “Wtf” podcast and said that David Fincher hired her to star opposite Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in 1999’s ‘Fight Club’.
Love said she had won the part of Marla Singer, eventually played by Helena Bonham Carter in the film, reports ‘Variety’.
The “Hole” frontwoman was fresh off strong reviews for ‘The People vs. Larry Flynt’ at the time. According to Love, she got fired from ‘Fight Club’ after rejecting Brad Pitt’s pitch for a Kurt Cobain movie.
Love said she “went nuclear” on Pitt after he and director Gus Van Sant approached her about making a Kurt Cobain movie.
Love and Cobain married in 1992 and they were together until his death in 1994 at age 27.
Van Sant eventually made the Cobain-inspired drama ‘Last Days’, starring Michael Pitt, but Love said this wasn’t the project Pitt...
Love said she had won the part of Marla Singer, eventually played by Helena Bonham Carter in the film, reports ‘Variety’.
The “Hole” frontwoman was fresh off strong reviews for ‘The People vs. Larry Flynt’ at the time. According to Love, she got fired from ‘Fight Club’ after rejecting Brad Pitt’s pitch for a Kurt Cobain movie.
Love said she “went nuclear” on Pitt after he and director Gus Van Sant approached her about making a Kurt Cobain movie.
Love and Cobain married in 1992 and they were together until his death in 1994 at age 27.
Van Sant eventually made the Cobain-inspired drama ‘Last Days’, starring Michael Pitt, but Love said this wasn’t the project Pitt...
- 30.12.2022
- von News Bureau
- GlamSham
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