“I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt. I went nuclear.'
with Marc Maron. As she recalled, Fincher had already hired her to play Marla Singer when Pitt, who was cast in the lead role of Tyler Durden, orchestrated her removal from the film after she rejected his pitch to play her late husband, Kurt Cobain, in a film.
“I wouldn’t let Brad play Kurt,” Love said. “I went nuclear. I don’t do Faust. Who the fuck do you think you are?” At the time of both casting and filming forin 1998, it had only been four years since Cobain had died at age 27 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He and Love had been married from 1992 until he died in 1994.
“I don’t know if I trust you, and I don’t know that your movies are for profit,” Love recalled telling Pitt. “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.”star Edward Norton at the time, knew something was off when he came home crying out: “I don’t have the power.” Shortly after, she said, she received a call from Fincher telling her she had been cut from the film.
It’s been a source of regret for two decades for Love, who added: “I still kick myself for not having the shark instinct to be like, sure, and fuck them later.” As it turned out, at the time of their pitch, there was no actual film project in development. “I was so dumb.”
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