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Courtney Love has ripped into Brad Pitt for getting her fired from her role in the 1999 cult classic film Fight Club.
During an interview on comedian Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, the singer opened up about her feud with the Hollywood superstar.
As Love discussed her fledgling acting career in the late nineties, the grunge princess managed to land the role of Marta in David Fincher’s 1999 classic opposite Edward Norton and Pitt.
Around that time she received a call from filmmaker Gus Van Sandt, who was interested in working on a biopic starring Pitt as her late husband Kurt Cobain.
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But Love said that conversation soon went ‘nuclear’ - something she now regrets.
She said: “I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt.”
As a result the ‘Doll Parts’ singer was later canned from Fight Club, with the role ultimately going to Helena Bonham Carter.
The singer added that in 2020 she again reconnected with Pitt, who wanted his company, Plan B Entertainment, to produce a Cobain biopic.
But still, the singer didn’t warm to the idea.
“‘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’”.
While Love shut down the idea of Plan B Entertainment producing the flick, she did say that she would give Warner Bros the green light as ‘they know how to make a f**king movie’.
She continued: “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.”
Well, don’t expect these two to patch things up anytime soon.
While it might be a while til we see a Cobain biopic on the big screen, director Matt Reeves recently admitted his Robert Pattinson’s Batman is based on the iconic ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ singer.
Reeves told Empire earlier this year that while he was envisioning a revamp for DC’s Caped Crusader, he began listening to Cobain’s music as inspiration.
He said: “When I write, I listen to music, and as I was writing the first act, I put on Nirvana’s ‘Something In The Way’.”
He added: “That’s when it came to me that, rather than make Bruce Wayne the playboy version we’ve seen before, there’s another version who had gone through a great tragedy and become a recluse.
“So I started making this connection to Gus Van Sant’s Last Days, and the idea of this fictionalized version of Kurt Cobain being in this kind of decaying manor.”
