Courtney Love: I was fired from 'Fight Club' after going 'nuclear' on Brad Pitt - New York Post

Courtney was not feeling the emotion for Brad Pitt.

Musician-actress Courtney Love contends that she was fired from the 1999 cult classical “Fight Club” due to the fact that she denied co-star Brad Pitt the accidental to look successful a imaginable movie astir her precocious husband, Kurt Cobain.

Love, 58, claimed during the podcast “WTF With Marc Maron” that she was slated to play Marla earlier being replaced by Helena Bonham Carter.

“I don’t cognize if I spot you, and I don’t cognize that your movies are for profit. They’re truly bully societal justness movies, but … if you don’t get me, you benignant of don’t get Kurt, and I don’t consciousness similar you do, Brad,” the vocalist recalled saying to Pitt.

“I wouldn’t fto Brad play Kurt,” she added. “I went nuclear. I don’t bash Faust. Who the f – – k bash you deliberation [you] are?”

Love said that she would beryllium funny successful doing a movie astir her precocious husband; however, she would not privation to bash it with Pitt, who projected different Cobain biopic successful 2020.

“My person Cameron Crowe [told me] Brad Pitt was enactment connected this world to stalk you for Kurt, which has been going connected since 1996,” said Love.

Love and Cobain joined successful 1992 earlier Cobain’s decease astatine the property of 27 successful 1994.

According to the Hole frontwoman, it was “Fight Club” co-star Edward Norton who broke the casting rejection quality to Love.

“I wouldn’t fto Brad play Kurt,” said Love of the “Fight Club” star, shown supra (right) with Edward Norton successful a country from the cult classic. “I went nuclear. I don’t bash Faust. Who the f–k bash you deliberation [you] are?”©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett C

Love and Cobain joined successful 1992, and helium died astatine the property of 27 successful 1994. The mates had 1 child, Frances Bean Cobain, who is present 30.Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images

Love said that she would beryllium funny successful doing a movie astir her precocious husband; however, she would not privation to bash it with Pitt, who projected different Cobain biopic successful 2020. 20th Century Fox Film Corp./courtesy Everett Collection

“He starts sobbing,” Love recalled. “He was like, ‘I don’t person the power!’ ”

The vocalist revealed that soon aft Norton told her, she received a telephone from the film’s director, David Fincher, who confirmed that she was knocked retired of the film. (In 1996, Love went connected to prima successful “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” directed by Milos Forman, and nabbed a Golden Globe information for her performance.)

Later successful the podcast, Love clarified that she was not talking astir the 2005 movie “Last Days,” which was inspired by Cobain and written and directed by Gus Van Sant.

The Post has reached retired to Pitt and Fincher for comment.