Classic fan favorite and cult film Fight Club he is one of the directors David FincherThe most mentioned, discussed and reviewed films of his career, along with great successes such as Se7en, The game, Panic room, Zodiacand The social network, Of course. It is undoubtedly one of the best of both Brad Pitt and Edward Norton’s careers, but Marla Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carterwas perhaps almost played by the frontwoman of Hole Courtney Love.
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Love says in a recent interview on the “WTF” podcast that she was hired by David Fincher to star in the film as Marla, exiting her role in The people versus Larry Flyntbut was thwarted by Brad Pitt!
Love said she “got nuclear” with Pitt after him and the director Gus Van Sant asked her to make a film about Kurt Cobain. Love and Cobain were married in 1992 and were together until his death in 1994 at the age of 27. Van Sant eventually made the Cobain-inspired drama Last dayswith Michael Pitt, but Love said this was not the project Pitt and the director wanted her approval on.
“I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt,” Love said. “I went nuclear. I don’t do Faust. Who the fuck do you think you are?” Love added that he told Pitt the following:
“I don’t know if I trust you and I don’t know if your films are for profit. They’re really good social justice movies, but… if you don’t understand me, you kind of don’t understand Kurt, and I don’t feel like you, Brad.
It was after she turned down Pitt’s Cobain film that Love claims she was eventually fired Fight Cluband her then boyfriend and star of the film, Edward Norton, broke the news to her.
“He starts sobbing. And he said, ‘I don’t have the power!’”
A source close to the film confirmed a Variety in which Love auditioned for the role in Fight Club but said she was not offered the part.
“You can’t get fired for a job you didn’t get. It is known that the roles are not decided by other actors but by the director”.
Fincher would call Love later to confirm she was out of the film. Bonham Carter took over the role and the rest is history. I have no idea if Love was officially offered the role, but I like HBC in the part, so it doesn’t make much difference to me. What do you think? Love was supposed to play the part of Marla Singer Fight Club?
by Jessica Fisher
Source: Geek Tyrant
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