Courtney Love has claimed that she was presupposed to have a serious function in Fight Club however by no means stepped in entrance of the digital camera after Brad Pitt acquired her fired.
The Hole frontwoman has mentioned that she had signed on to play the function of Marla Singer, who was performed by Helena Bonham Carter within the last minimize of the David Fincher movie. Pitt then allegedly demanded that she be minimize from the forged.
She detailed auditioning for the function and performing “100 takes” for Fincher earlier than she was given the half.
“I get this phone call. I get the role, the lawyers have called my lawyers. It’s my role… We did all these table reads, I’d gone over it more privately with David,” she advised Marc Maron’s WTF podcast.
Shortly afterwards, Love obtained a telephone name from filmmaker Gus Van Sandt who needed to make a biopic about Kurt Cobain‘s life and needed Pitt for the function of the late Nirvana frontman. Love mentioned that she went “nuclear” in response, telling them, “Fuck you!”, a response that she admitted within the interview that she now regretted.
“Edward gets home, he starts sobbing. My landline rang at six. It was David Fincher – I knew it was gonna be him. And I’m like, ‘Don’t, don’t, don’t’. And yeah, he fired me. Because I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt.”
Of Bonham-Carter, who went on to get the function of Marla, she mentioned: “By the way, God bless Helena Bonham Carter, she’s a genius, but I’ve never seen that film.”
She additionally mentioned that Pitt had approached her in regards to the concept of his movie firm making a Kurt Cobain biopic in 2020, which she shut down by admitting: “I don’t know that I trust you.”
“If you don’t get me, you don’t get Kurt, and I don’t feel like you do, Brad,” she advised him.
Elsewhere within the episode, Love cited Lana Del Rey and her late husband as the one “true musical geniuses” she’s ever recognized.
She is presently gearing as much as launch her first album in over 12 years, which she confirmed wouldn’t be a rock album. “People aren’t really doing rock anymore,” she mentioned, as a result of “rock’s not a thing”.