After she refused to let him play her late husband Kurt Cobain in a biopic. The Hole frontwoman claimed throughout an look on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast that she was formally forged as Marla Singer alongside Pitt and her then-boyfriend Edward Norton in David Fincher’s 1999 film. However, across the similar time, Pitt and director Gus Van Sant pitched her their Cobain film concept and she or he shut them down and she or he was allegedly fired from Fincher’s movie because of this.”They each get on the cellphone and it was just like the Hellmouth opened, oh my God…”