Courtney Love says she was fired from ‘Combat Membership’ after refusing to let Brad Pitt play late husband Kurt Cobain

Courtney Love says she was virtually in Combat Membership.

Actually, the rocker mentioned on Monday’s episode of WTF With Marc Maron that she was formally solid to play Marla — the function that finally went to Helena Bonham Carter — within the 1999 cult traditional. Love claimed that she was fired from that film after she “went nuclear” on Brad Pitt and director Gus Van Sant once they approached her across the identical time a couple of challenge primarily based on her late husband, Kurt Cobain. She shut the entire thing down.

“I would not let Brad play Kurt,” Love mentioned.

She made it clear that the dialogue was a couple of film apart from Final Days, a 2005 Van Sant film impressed by the late Nirvana frontman, who died by suicide in 1994. He was 27.

The Gap rocker mentioned she regrets reacting to Pitt the best way that she did.

Nonetheless, Love famous that she had an opportunity to vary her thoughts and did not, as a result of, as not too long ago as 2020, she mentioned no to Pitt’s proposed biopic on the “In Bloom” singer.

“I do not know if I belief you and I do not know that your films are for revenue. They’re actually good social justice films, however… ,” Love mentioned she advised Pitt. “If you aren’t getting me, you form of do not get Kurt, and I do not really feel such as you do, Brad.”

Love mentioned she needs to make a Cobain film finally with another person.

And she or he talked about one different recognizable title in her story.

“My pal Cameron Crowe [told me] Brad Pitt was placed on this earth to stalk you for Kurt, which has been occurring since ’96,” she mentioned.

Yahoo Leisure reached out to Pitt and the studios behind Combat Membership for remark, however didn’t obtain a response.

Love was married to Cobain from Feb. 1992 till his loss of life. Their daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, turned 30 in August.