Robert Pattinson Is Not Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love Says

Late last week, a rumor started to make the rounds that one of Robert Pattinson’s future projects would include a Nirvana biopic where he would, of course, play the part of Kurt Cobain. Apparently, it was Courtney Love herself that wanted him for the role, but the rocker is saying a different story for People magazine.

Fans know that Pattinson is also a musician, and that he often said that he’d be making music and singing in bars if it weren’t for his career as an actor. As such, playing Kurt Cobain would have made a lot of sense, which is precisely what the rumor was based on. Still, the report might have also had something to do with Love reportedly wanting Pattinson to go out with her daughter, Frances Bean, in the sense that whoever came up with it might have kept that in mind.

Sadly, Pattinson was not even considered for the part. “What Courtney Love wants, Courtney Love gets. Contrary to reports suggesting the rocker was interested in Robert Pattinson playing her late-husband Kurt Cobain in a planned biopic, Love now says she never planned to enlist the Brit. ‘Isn’t that so stupid, who would cast him? That’s just wrong,’ Love told The Canadian Press. ‘No offense.’ Softening her position a bit, the Hole frontwoman later Tweeted: ‘HEY I LIKE R PATZ HES JUST NOT RIGHT FOR KC!’” People writes.

Instead of Pattinson, Love says she’d like Ryan Goslin or James McAvoy for the part, while the aforementioned mag throws in a few other names in the mix. Among them is that of “Avatar” and “Clash of the Titans” star Sam Worthington, and that of Emile Hirsch. On the downside, fans seemed to be really happy about having the “Twilight” heartthrob as the lead in the biopic, with an overwhelming 63 percent voting for them in a poll set up by People to feel the pulse of the audience on the matter.

As disappointing as that may be, it would seem Pattinson will not play the legendary rocker any time soon. Fans will be able to catch him in “Bel Ami,” which is now shooting in Hungary and stars Uma Thurman, Christina Ricci and Kristin Scott Thomas. “Bel Ami” arrives in theaters in 2011.