Courtney Love Says Brad Pitt Had Her Fired from 'Fight Club' Over Kurt Cobain Biopic
On the WTF Podcast, Courtney Love says she was fired as Marla in 'Fight Club' because she wouldn't let Brad Pitt play Kurt Cobain in a movie.
She also says Lana Del Rey and Kurt Cobain are "the only two true musical geniuses" she’s ever known.https://t.co/McqS4zUAfM
- Stereogum (@stereogum) December 27, 2022
According to Courtney Love, she was officially cast in the role of Marla in Fight Club opposite then-boyfriend Edward Norton. Around that time she got a call from director Gus Van Sant and Norton's costar Brad Pitt, who wanted to do a movie about Kurt Cobain (NOT Last Days, Van Sant’s 2005 film loosely based on Cobain).
Love said she “went nuclear” on the two, a decision she now regrets. As a result, Fight Club director David Fincher fired her because “I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt.”
She added that as recently as 2020 she reconnected with Pitt because his Plan B production company wanted to produce a Cobain biopic, which she also rejected. “I don’t know if I trust you and I don’t know that your movies are for profit,” she told him. “If you don’t get me, you kinda don’t Kurt, and I don’t feel like you do, Brad.”
She added, “My friend Cameron Crowe [told me] Brad Pitt was put on this earth to stalk you for Kurt, which has been going on since ’96.”
Love also said that during the same call with Gus Van Sant, he and Pitt were talking about doing Brokeback Mountain back when the script was more “X-rated.”
Van Sant apparently told Love while Pitt wasn’t around that Pitt was guarded about his sexuality. “You know how he is about his sexuality,” Van Sant told Love.
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