Brad Pitt allegedly forced Courtney Love to leave David Fincher’s Fight Club. Love blames Pitt for her absence from the 1999 movie, which he co-starred in with Edward Norton, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, and Jared Leto.
Love revealed details about her quiet Hollywood conflict with Pitt in an interview with Marc Maron this week for his WTF podcast. She also made light of her late husband Kurt Cobain’s propensity to “ruin” things for her even after his passing in 1994.
She provided a story about how he cost her a part in Fight Club when asked for an illustration. Love asserted that she pitched the idea to Fincher and had the role of Marla Singer—a part eventually portrayed by Carter—cast.
Love claimed that prior to the start of filming, Pitt and director Gus Van Sant called her to express their interest in making a Cobain biopic. Love remembered, “It was like the Hellmouth opened.”
“No one has ever done this; it’s like 2000. I still blame myself, 22 years later, for not having the shark instinct to say, “yes,” and fuck them later. I blew it up,” she continued.
Love went on to add that Norton, her ex-partner, had told her the news that evening. Edward Norton arrives at home. He begins crying,” she alleged. “I don’t have the power,” he declared. Later, she received a call from director David Fincher announcing that she had lost the part.
Love referred to Carter as a “genius” and emphasized that her retelling of the incident was not meant to belittle her. She added that she had never watched Fight Club.
However, it didn’t end there. Love claims that Pitt approached her about a Cobain project once more during a separate video chat conversation. She allegedly told him, “I don’t know that I trust you and I don’t know if your movies are for profit,” when he said he planned to do a biopic about Kurt Cobain. They are excellent social justice films.
She continued, “I was like, “If you don’t get me, you don’t get Kurt, and I don’t feel like you do, Brad,” when asked if Pitt understood her or Cobain. Pitt’s interest in a film has nothing to do with Sants’ Last Days, which depicts a rock musician’s final days and is rumored to be largely based on Cobain, according to Love.
Love revealed that her friend Cameron Crowe later remarked to her that Brad Pitt “was put on this earth to stalk you for Kurt” and claimed that he had been vying for the part of her late spouse since 1996.
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