Courtney didn’t feel any affection for Brad Pitt.
Musician and actress Courtney Love claims she was fired from 1999 cult classic ‘Fight Club’ after co-star Brad Pitt denied the possibility of starring in a film about her late husband Kurt Cobain. doing.
Love, 58, claimed on the podcast.WTF with Marc Maron” She was slated to play Mara before being replaced by Helena Bonham Carter.
“I don’t know if I trust you, I don’t know your movies are for profit. They’re really good social justice movies, but… if you don’t understand me, You don’t understand carts.
“I don’t let Brad play Kurt,” she added. [you] that is? “
Love said she was interested in making a film about her late husband. But she doesn’t want to get along with Pitt, who suggested another Cobain biography in 2020.
“My friend Cameron Crowe [told me] Brad Pitt was put on this earth to stalk you for a kart that has been going on since 1996.
Love and Cobain were married in 1992 before Cobain died in 1994 at the age of 27.
According to the Hall frontwoman, it was “Fight Club” co-star Edward Norton who broke the news of the casting refusal to Love.
“He started sobbing,” Love recalled. “He said, ‘I have no power!'”
The singer revealed that shortly after Norton told her, she received a call from film director David Fincher, who confirmed that she had been knocked out of the film. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the director’s “The People vs. Larry Flynt.”
Later in the podcast, Love clarified that he wasn’t talking about the 2005 film The Last Days, which was inspired by Cobain and written and directed by Gus Van Sant.
The Washington Post reached out to Pitt and Fincher for comment.