“You mean the one with all the sh*t in her face?”
“No… That’s Jody. …My wife.”
The latest issue of GQ has an oral history of Nirvana (I wonder if my generation will someday talk about grunge as obnoxiously as the Baby Boomers do Bob Dylan), and one of the more interesting tidbits was that, according to Courtney Love, Quentin Tarantino once asked Kurt Cobain to play Lance, the lazy drug dealer part in Pulp Fiction which eventually went to Eric Stoltz (who did an amazing job).
Courtney Love:
At the same time, boy, was he excited when the scripts started coming in. You ever wonder why he thanked Quentin [Tarantino] on the back of In Utero? Quentin asked him to play Eric Stoltz’s part in Pulp Fiction. You can ask Quentin that, because it’s true.
Love went on to add, “Quentin thought Kurt would be just perfect for the part of a laidback hippie married to some shrill, bitchy harpy who looked like trailer trash and was always running her mouth about some dumb sh– HEY WAIT A MINUTE!”
Oh, and she also says Kurt had a big wiener. What? Don’t act like you weren’t wondering.
Kurt had more presence and more beauty than Brad Pitt — who wanted to play Kurt, by the way. He was a leader, he was strong, in fact he was well f*cking hung, if you really want to know. [GQ via Vulture]
Not sure why Courtney Love felt the need to compare Kurt to Brad Pitt unprompted, but she was dating Edward Norton while he was shooting Fight Club with Pitt, so maybe there’s some bad blood there for some reason. Either that, or maybe Courtney Love is just a barely-coherent, name-dropping whore. “Lemme tell you shoming about Kurt, he danshed a lot better’n at Chrish Brown, I don’t think I haffa tell you. He was a angel. ZZZZZZZZ” (*falls through coffee table*) (*assistant picks glass shards out of exposed beaver*)


I imagine that Courtney Love nowadays looks like a cross between Cameron Diaz and the shit I took this morning
I thought our generation was already obnoxious when it comes to Nirvana.
I’m glad Eric got the part. It’s good to see at least one role didn’t Marty Mcfly out from under him.
he was well f*cking hung
No, Courtney, being hung was the backup plan in case the shotgun thing didn’t work out.
He was so happy. The offer from Tarantio was the last thing going through his mind before he died.
Well,ok… not the LAST thing that went through his mind
In hindsight, Tarantino should have offered him the role of Marvin.
He never had to give a shot, but he sure could take one.
*slow clap for Stinky Peet*
Bravo sir. Bra-f*cking-vo!
In fact he was well f*cking hung
Nope. Shotgun.
Has anyone checked the back of “Nevermind” to see if he thanked the Coke Wizard?
Kurt’s laidback hippie smells like free spirit.
Tarantino gave the role to Stoltz as a thank you for introducing him to the coke wizard. I thought that was pretty common knowledge…
“Do you notice a sign out in front of my house that said Dead Gigger Storage?!”
Well, like Dylan, Cobain had a shitty voice and played obnoxious music. And, like the baby boomers, people who reminisce on musical acts and how they “impacted society and life as a whole” are dipshits.
An embarrassing mix-up. Tarantino misheard Kurt’s name over the squawking of Alan Ball’s birds. He really wanted cocaine for the project.
I love Nirvana, but the dozens of copy cat bands that came after them were horrible and made radio listening painful. I think Kurt knew this would happen, coupled with being responsible for Courtney Love’s fame he did what any man in his position would do; eat a shotgun blast.
Pat Smear wanted to play Marsellus Wallace in the pommel horse scene.
@Hammer
Agreed. If you’re unintentionally responsible for spawning bands like Creed and Nickleback, you should willfully take what’s coming to you. And Kurt did just that… He was a real trooper.
Man could you imagine those two in a conversation? Quentin on Coke and Kurt on Heroin? One talking in circle the other trying not to swallow his own vomit? Classic image.
Yeah, Courtney, he was hung, but it was still like a pencil in a coffee cup.