Courtney Love says she was fired from ‘Fight Club’ after refusing to let Brad Pitt play late husband Kurt Cobain

Courtney Love says she was nearly in Fight Club.

In reality, the rocker stated on Monday’s episode of WTF With Marc Maron that she was formally forged to play Marla — the function that finally went to Helena Bonham Carter — within the 1999 cult traditional. Love claimed that she was fired from that film after she “went nuclear” on Brad Pitt and director Gus Van Sant after they approached her across the similar time a few undertaking based mostly on her late husband, Kurt Cobain. She shut the entire thing down.

“I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt,” Love stated.

She made it clear that the dialogue was a few film aside from Last Days, a 2005 Van Sant film impressed by the late Nirvana frontman, who died by suicide in 1994. He was 27.

The Hole rocker stated she regrets reacting to Pitt the best way that she did.

Still, Love famous that she had an opportunity to change her thoughts and did not, as a result of, as not too long ago as 2020, she stated no to Pitt’s proposed biopic on the “In Bloom” singer.

“I don’t know if I trust you and I don’t know that your movies are for profit. They’re really good social justice movies, but… ,” Love stated she advised Pitt. “If you don’t get me, you kind of don’t get Kurt, and I don’t feel like you do, Brad.”

Love stated she desires to make a Cobain film ultimately with another person.

And she talked about one different recognizable title in her story.

“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,” she stated.

Yahoo Entertainment reached out to Pitt and the studios behind Fight Club for remark, however didn’t obtain a response.

Love was married to Cobain from Feb. 1992 till his loss of life. Their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, turned 30 in August.