Courtney Love Says Brad Pitt Fired Her From Fight Club After She Turned Down His Offer To Play Kurt Cobain

Courtney Love airs old grievances fight club Starring Brad Pitt.

The actress and Grammy-nominated musician claimed she was set to star as Marla Singer in the David Fincher film – eventually played by Helena Bonham Carter – before Pitt stepped in and “fired” her. Love says it happened because she didn’t want Brad to play with her late husband, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, after he pitched the idea to her.

Love explained that when Pitt first came up with the idea of ​​playing Cobain — who committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 27 — it “went nuclear.” And that all these years later she wishes she’d embraced “the shark instinct” instead – Late Pitt think She will agree to the idea of ​​him playing Cobain until she finishes production fight club. Love added this while dating Pitt fight club Co-star Edward Norton At the time of her alleged shooting, Norton told her he didn’t have “the power” to fix her.

Love’s comments came during an interview about the WTF with Marc Maron podcast released Monday, prompting her to call fight clubCarter “a genius” and admits she has “never seen” the film.

While Pitt’s reps did not respond to a request for comment, a source close to the film tells us, “Nearly twenty-five years ago, Courtney Love auditioned for a role in fight club , a role she was never offered. You can’t be fired for a job you didn’t get. It’s a well-known fact that roles are not determined by other actors, but by the director.”

Love claimed to have spoken with comedian Marc Maron on his popular podcast WTF that Pitt had been talking about making a Cobain-centric film since about 1996 — and had approached her about it to produce a film about Cobain by his company Plan B in 2020. Again, she was not inclined to question Pitt. “I buzzed with him and stood up for myself. I said, ‘Listen man. I don’t know if I trust you and I don’t know if your films are profitable,” she shared. “‘These are really good social justice movies, but … if you don’t get me, you don’t get Kurt, and I don’t feel like you, Brad.’

Love went on to say that she is not opposed to doing a Cobain biopic with the right people, such as Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy at Warner Bros. “Because they know how to make a hell of a movie.”

Fincher’s film fight club, based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, was published in 1999 by 20th Century Fox. an underground fight club that grows into much more. The wannabe character of love is Marla fight club‘s female lead – a former love interest of Durden’s.

Although the film received a mixed reception from critics and underperformed at the box office, it eventually became profitable and developed a reputation as a beloved cult classic after its release on home video.