Edward Norton is shooting down Janeane Garofalo‘s claims that he was the reason she lost out on a role in Fight Club.
Janeane was up for the role of Maria Singer, and shared with Build Series that she “met with [the film’s director] David Fincher, who handed me the script and said, ‘If you like it, the part is yours.’”
She added that she was shot down and “was told that he would like Courtney Love to do it, because he was dating her, but Brad Pitt said, ‘I’m not going to sign off on that.’ So, they agreed on Helena Bonham Carter, who was probably much better than I would have been.”
Edward fired back at the claims and told CNN that he was “sorry Janeane is under that impression, but if she was serious, she’s really mistaken.”
“David Fincher does exactly what he wants. He makes the call on every dimension of his films, top to bottom. I don’t recall him ever even raising the subject of who he was considering for most other roles.”
“The one suggestion I made, he shot down. I was a big fan of Janeane’s so I’d have loved to do a reading with her,” he adds.
Edward still remembers getting booed at the Fight Club premiere.
