Courtney Love; Brad PItt.Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty; Amy Sussman/Getty
Courtney Loveis doubling down on her claim thatBrad Pitthad her fired fromFight Club, as a source denied she was ever cast in the first place.
A source close to the film told PEOPLE on Thursday that they believe Love “auditioned for a role inFight Club, a role she was never offered at any point.”
Love, 58, saidin her statementthat the story she recounted on the podcast — involving an alleged phone call to her from Pitt, now 59, and directorGus Van Santabout a potential Cobain-focused project — was initially one she “was never going to tell” but Pitt “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 ofFight Club,” she went on.
Reps for Pitt, Van Sant, 70, andFight ClubdirectorDavid Fincherdid not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment Friday.
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Helena Bonham Carter and Edward Norton inFight Club(1999).20th Century Fox/Kobal/Shutterstock
Love claimed she was originally offered the part of Marla Singer, which eventually went toHelena Bonham Carter. The film also starred Pitt, as well as Love’s then-boyfriendEdward Norton.
“It’s a movie. Indeed, I passed on better roles [than] that. Who cares?” Love continued, claiming that Pitt was still persistent about a Cobain project for years to come.
While Love did not mention Van Sant as being on the Zoom call, the filmmaker previously wrote and directed 2005’sLast Days, starringMichael Pitt(no relation to Brad) as “a Seattle musician” whose “life and career are reminiscent of those of Kurt Cobain,” according toan IMDb synopsis.
“With all this resentment in our history, one might ask why I took yet another pitch for Kurt’s film from Brad after all these years? It’s because I’m in recovery,” Love wrote in herFriday Instagram statement. “And resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies.”
“I was over being mad about it. Plus, I heard Pitt was dealing with the same demons. So, we might both have changed our spiritual world views. Not to be,” she added. “It’s not just the Zoom I had with Brad in 2020 where I said no to @planbfilms & Brad producing it. It’s that I said NO on the Zoom and that was not enough, and I was not heard. I was ignored.”
Love reiterated that she “had no plans to bring it up with Marc Maron but up it came,” insisting that she “told the story because I felt Pitt would not stop pursuing Kurt — unless I said it in public.”
Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love in 1992.Lindsay Brice/Getty Images
Love said she “truly” wishes Pitt “well,” and that she doesn’t want the actor “to be pissed off at me” and for her to “become his resentment.”
“If he’s mad at me, that’s his problem. I enjoy him as a movie star immensely. Not so much as a biopic producer,” she added. Plan B is behind films like12 Years a Slaveand 2022 titlesBlondeandShe Said.
ShereportedlytoldGQback in 2011 about the idea of Pitt playing Cobain in a film, “Kurt had more presence and more beauty thanBrad Pitt.” Later, in 2014,she claimed castingwas underway for a possible Cobain film and she was seeking “blond, gorgeous and the newBrad Pitts” for the part.
source: people.com
