Courtney Love stated she would’ve performed Marla Singer in Struggle Membership if it weren’t for Brad Pitt.
In a latest interview on WTF with Marc Maron, Love stated director David Fincher had employed her to star reverse Pitt and Edward Norton within the cult basic movie, however she received fired after she rejected a pitch Pitt dropped at her.
The actor had requested Love if he may play her late husband, Kurt Cobain, in a Gus Van Sant challenge, and he or she stated she turned him down. “I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt,” she stated on the podcast. “I went nuclear. I don’t do Faust. Who the fuck do you assume you’re?”
She went on to recount the dialog the 2 of them had, saying, she informed him, “I don’t know if I belief you, and I don’t know that your motion pictures are for revenue. They’re actually good social justice motion pictures, however … when you don’t get me, you sort of don’t get Kurt, and I don’t really feel such as you do, Brad.”
Love stated that after she rejected the concept of Pitt enjoying Cobain, she was fired from Struggle Membership, and the position of Marla went to Helena Bonham Carter. Norton, who Love was romantically concerned with on the time, broke the information to her, she defined, saying he began sobbing. “He was like, ‘I don’t have the ability!’” she recalled.
Van Sant ultimately helmed the Cobain-inspired movie, Final Days, starring Michael Pitt, however Love stated that wasn’t the movie they initially spoke about.
The truestarz reached out to a rep for Pitt however had not heard again on the time of publication.