Courtney Love says she was fired from 'Fight Club' after refusing to let Brad Pitt play late husband Kurt Cobain - Yahoo Entertainment

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Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain and their daughter, Frances Bean, get astatine 1993 MTV Video Music Awards. (Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc)

Courtney Love says she was astir successful Fight Club.

In fact, the rocker said connected Monday's occurrence of WTF With Marc Maron that she was officially formed to play Marla — the relation that yet went to Helena Bonham Carter — successful the 1999 cult classic. Love claimed that she was fired from that movie aft she "went nuclear" connected Brad Pitt and manager Gus Van Sant erstwhile they approached her astir the aforesaid clip astir a task based connected her precocious husband, Kurt Cobain. She unopen the full happening down.

"I wouldn't fto Brad play Kurt," Love said.

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Brad Pitt stars successful Fight Club. (Photo: 20th Century Fox Film Corp. via Everett Collection)

She made it wide that the treatment was astir a movie different than Last Days, a 2005 Van Sant movie inspired by the precocious Nirvana frontman, who died by termination successful 1994. He was 27.

The Hole rocker said she regrets reacting to Pitt the mode that she did.

Still, Love noted that she had a accidental to alteration her caput and didn't, because, arsenic precocious arsenic 2020, she said nary to Pitt's projected biopic connected the "In Bloom" singer.

"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... ," Love said she told Pitt. "If you don't get me, you benignant of don't get Kurt, and I don't consciousness similar you do, Brad."

Love said she wants to marque a Cobain movie yet with idiosyncratic else.

And she mentioned 1 different recognizable sanction successful her story.

"My person Cameron Crowe [told me] Brad Pitt was enactment connected this world to stalk you for Kurt, which has been going connected since '96," she said.

Yahoo Entertainment reached retired to Pitt and the studios down Fight Club for comment, but did not person a response.

Love was joined to Cobain from Feb. 1992 until his death. Their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, turned 30 successful August.

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