Courtney Love claims Brad Pitt 'tried to blackmail' her before firing her from 'Fight Club' over Kurt Cobain biopic
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Courtney Love doubled down on claims that Brad Pitt had her fired from the 1999 classic 'Fight Club' in an Instagram post shared on Friday, December 30, 2022. The 58-year-old singer claimed in the post that the 'Babylon' actor had "pushed me a bridge too far."
As MEAWW previously reported, The 'Sid And Nancy' actress first claimed that Pitt had her sacked from 'Fight Club' after she rejected his suggestion to play her late husband Kurt Cobain in a biopic. 'The Hole' singer, airing her frustrations against the 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' star, 59, revealed how she was initially going to portray the character of Marla Singer, which ultimately went to Helena Bonham Carter.
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However, a source close to the movie production allegedly told Daily Mail that Love once tried out for a part in 'Fight Club' but was never cast. "(Love) auditioned for a role in Fight Club, a role she was never offered at any point. 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."
But, according to Love, such was not the case. Addressing her 1.1 million Instagram followers, she shared her part of the story in a lengthy post. She wrote, "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 said.
The actress continued, "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 s**t 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."
"The point is Brad kept on stalking me about Kurt. 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. And resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person dies," the actress added.
She further continued, "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. 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. I had no plans to bring it up with Marc Maron but up it came. I told the story because I felt Pitt would not stop pursuing Kurt - unless I said it in public. I don't want Brad to be pissed off at me and become his resentment. I want him to do better. I'm not into assault. Cmon brother Pitt. I wish you well, truly. 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."
The actress concluded by saying, "Hope this clarifies, and thanks for your time. I'm sure Helena Bonham Carter was utterly meant to be Marla Singer and I do not bear her or Edward Norton or David Fincher or Art Linson all people whose work & genius I respect immensely any ill will."
Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain died by suicide in 1994 at age 27. He and Love had a daughter named Frances Bean Cobain, 30. Love reportedly told GQ back in 2011 about the idea of Pitt playing Cobain in a film, "Kurt had more presence and more beauty than Brad Pitt." Later, in 2014, she claimed casting was underway for a possible Cobain movie and she was seeking "blond, gorgeous and the new Brad Pitts" for the part.