14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this year, the tabloids somehow caught wind of a potentially very juicy story: “Twilight” heartthrob Robert Pattinson had been approached by Courtney Love to play her late husband in a Nirvana Biopic and he had almost agreed to do it. Shortly after, Love herself denied the reports, saying having Pattinson as Kurt would have been “stupid,” a remark that more than irked the British actor for how rude it was.
Consequently, he’s fighting back, HollywoodLife informs – and he’s not about to let Love get away with it that easily. According to the e-zine, while promoting the latest “Twilight” film, “Eclipse,” Pattinson was asked about the whole fuss around the Nirvana biopic and how, at one point, he was attached to star in it as Cobain himself. That part was true, he says: he was offered the role but he turned it down for several practical reasons, one of them (and the deal-breaker, actually) being that he looks nothing like the late rocker.
“I love Nirvana, but I love them a bit too much – I’d be embarrassed [to play Kurt Cobain],” the British actor told UK’s The Mirror, as cited by HollywoodLife. “I didn’t get offered it. For one thing, I’m too tall, and I can’t sing like him, I’m nothing like him. It’s ridiculous,” Pattinson goes on to say about the whole hubbub in the media. Partly responsible for it was Courtney Love herself, Robert further explains, because she went ahead and shot off her large mouth without as much as thinking, thus putting him in a rather embarrassing light.
“Isn’t that so stupid, who would cast [Rob]? That’s just wrong. But isn’t [the thought of him playing Kurt] silly?” Love told the media when asked for confirmation or denial of the rumor that Pattinson had been cast. The actor responds now to this, and, suffice it to say, he’s not mindful of Love’s feelings in any way. “You see all these comments, like from Courtney Love, saying, ‘What the [expletive]! He’s totally wrong for it’, and I’m like, ‘I [expletive]-ing said no, you [expletive]!’”
Since it’s clear that fans will not get to see Robert Pattinson as Kurt Cobain anytime soon – especially not now that he openly provoked Courtney Love, who is not exactly known for being delicate in such matters – they will have to do with him in “Eclipse” (now running) and the upcoming period piece “Bel Ami.”
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