Courtney Love is firing shots at Brad Pitt for allegedly booting her from his cult classic film Fight Club. The Grammy-nominated musician has claimed that Brad Pitt got her fired from the acclaimed film after she rejected his bid to make a Kurt Cobain biopic.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, in a recent interview on WTF podcast, Love said director David Fincher had hired her to star opposite Pitt and Edward Norton in the cult classic film. Love was hired to play the role of Marla Singer which eventually went on to Helena Bonham Carter after she was allegedly fired after she rejected a bid from Pitt.
As per the report, the actress recalled that Pitt had asked her if he could play her late husband, Kurt Cobain, in a Gus Van Sant project, and she said she turned him down. “I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt,” she said on the podcast. “I went nuclear. I don’t do Faust. Who the fuck do you think you are?”
As she recalled the conversation the two had at the time, Love claims that she told him, “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…if you don’t get me, you kind of don’t get Kurt, and I don’t feel like you do, Brad.”
When Love explained the situation, of being fired to her then-boyfriend Edward Norton, Pitt’s Fight Club co-star, she said that Norton started sobbing. “He was like, ‘I don’t have the power!’” she recalled. Meanwhile, a source close to the film shared, “Nearly twenty-five years ago, Courtney Love auditioned for a role in Fight Club, a role she was never offered at any point.”
The source added, “You cannot be fired for a job you didn’t get. It’s common knowledge that roles are not decided by other actors but by the director.” On Friday, Love took to Instagram on December 30 to share details about her interactions with Pitt around Fight Club and a potential Cobain biopic.
“Hi. Regarding a story I told on the @marcmaron #wtf podcast. A story I was never going to tell. Brad pushed me a bridge too far. I don’t like the way he does business or wields his power. It’s a simple fact, and it started during the production of Fight Club,” she wrote. “I understand how much of a game of roulette casting is. I am not here 22 years later bitching about losing a part playing someone’s side piece in a movie.”
“On the podcast, I recount the day Brad & Gus Van Sant called me from lunch and tried to blackmail me over my role, for the rights to a film about Kurt. I lost my shit on them, and by 7pm I was fired from Fight Club. Every word of this is factual. This was always a secret that I was fine keeping,” she said. “It’s a movie. Indeed, I passed on better roles that [sic] that. Who cares? The point is Brad kept on stalking me about Kurt.”
Fight Club is a 1999 psychological thriller film around an insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker who form an underground fight club that evolves into much more. The film is directed by David Fincher and stars Brad Pitt, Edward Nortan, Helena Bonham Carter in pivotal roles.
