According to Courtney Love, she almost appeared in Fight Club before having a disagreement with Brad Pitt over a Kurt Cobain movie. This week, Love appeared as a guest on Marc Maron's WTF podcast, and the Hole singer made some interesting claims about getting fired from the Fight Club production. She says that she was originally cast to appear in the hit film as Marla Singer, the character that was played by Helena Bonham Carter.

Speaking about the situation with Maron, Love says she definitely had the role, which would have starred her alongside Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Ahead of filming, however, Love says she received a phone call from filmmaker Gus Van Sant. The Elephant director told her he was with Brad Pitt, who was very interested in playing Kurt Cobain in a biopic about the late Nirvana singer. As Love is Cobain's widow, the two were seeking to get her approval on the project. Though she later came to regret this, Love says she went "nuclear" after hearing the pitch.

"(Gus told me) 'Brad really wants to do a movie about music.' And my thought was, Chet Baker. He was 37 at the time, Brad. He was zenith Brad, right? Tyler Durden is zenith Brad. And then they both get on the phone, and it was like, the Hellmouth opened. Oh my god. 'We wanna do it about Kurt!' This is like, 2000. No one's ever done this... I went nuclear."

Love says that after this phone call in which she impolitely told Pitt he couldn't play Cobain, she received a call from Fight Club helmer David Fincher, informing her that she had been booted from the cast of the film. The singer admits that she hasn't been able to watch the film after her firing, claiming that she was fired directly because of her refusal to let Pitt play her late husband.

"By the way, God bless Helena Bonham Carter. She's a genius. I've never seen that film. And, yeah, he fired me, because I wouldn't let Brad play Kurt."

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Love says that she was able to have another chat with Pitt years later that, for what it's worth, went much better than their first conversation. She says that, this time, Pitt was looking to produce a Kurt Cobain biopic through his Plan B label. This meeting is said to have occurred in 2020, but even with the passing of 18 years, she still wasn't comfortable with Pitt being the one to take the reins of the biopic. Love says she told Pitt as much, but with much cleaner language.

"I had a Zoom with him, here. And I stepped up for myself. I said, 'Listen, man. I don't know if I trust you and I don't know that your movies are for profit. They're really good social justice movies, but, you know.' I was like, 'If you don't get me, you kind of don't get Kurt, and I don't feel like you do, Brad.' Anyway, that was it."

There hasn't been a proper Kurt Cobain biopic, though Gus Van Sant did direct a movie called Last Days that follows a musician who's very reminiscent of the Nirvana singer. For her part, Love says she does want to see the biopic made some day, but with the right people involved. Pitt will simply have to enjoy it as a fan, as he doesn't seem to be welcome with the biopic's production.