If Courtney Love’s version is to be believed, Brad Pitt is making himself heard on movie sets. During the podcast WTF with Marc Maronthe singer and actress has made some gory revelations about her supposed ouster from Fight Club. David Fincher’s 1999 film. Claims it was to her denied the role of Marla Singer, for which she was hired. This to due to an argument with the star of the film, Brad Pitt.
Courtney Love returns to an argument started by the actor. She asked her if she would let him step into Kurt Cobain’s role to play him in a film planned by director Gus Van Sant. Courtney Love was the wife of musician Kurt Cobain for two years until his death in 1994 at the age of 27. Courtney Love did not agree with the request: «I would never have allowed Brad to play Kurt. He infuriated me. I don’t play Faust. Who the fuck do you think you are? », she recalls, still irritated by her proposal. To explain her anger at her, she made a moral reasoning to Brad Pitt: «I don’t know if I trust you, and I don’t know if you make films for money. They’re great social justice movies, but… if you don’t understand me, you kind of don’t understand Kurt, and I don’t feel like I can, Brad.”
A version of events contradicted by a source
According to her version of events, after this controversy she was excluded from the project Fight Club. At the time, the actress was the partner of Edward Norton, who starred in the film alongside Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter, who inherited the character of Marla Singer. It was he who told her that she had been excluded from the cast: «She started sobbing», she says. She said things like, “I don’t have the power [di cambiare le cose]. This account is contradicted by an unnamed source familiar with the film contacted by Variety magazine. The magazine claims that Courtney Love was not cast in her role after her audition: “You can’t get fired for a job you didn’t get. It is known that the roles are not assigned by the other actors, but by the director,” said the source.
At the end, Fight Club was filmed without her and the film inspired by the last days of Kurt Cobain’s life was filmed without Brad Pitt. Last Daysdirected by Gus Van Sant, according to Courtney Love is not the project that Brad Pitt had in mind when they had a fight.
Source: Vanity Fair
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