Ed Norton cost Janeane Garofalo a part in ‘Fight Club,’ actress claims

Helena Bonham Carter was excellent in the role.

Norton is a known turd and the joke of many.....

LSA already covered this!

H B Carter ruins ev movie she in !!!! ha ha

R3 this isn’t LSA doll.

It wouldn't be unheard of for a producer or director to blame somebody else for a decision they made. Doesn't mean it happened the way Ed says, but I don't find it impossible to believe.

Has she ever washed her constantly-Nineties-style hair in the last 30 years?

Marla is supposed to be a fantasy fucktoy bitch queen of a figure. JG only has the "bitch" part down.

Boo fucking hoo, an actress didn't get a part.

Stuff like this is always interesting to me. What is so-and-so actor had been in this famous role. Like what if Jodie Foster had played Princess Leia (she almost did).

I'm a huge fan of the film FIGHT CLUB, and this is interesting to think about. I'm not a big fan of her acting style but I could see her deadpan delivery working well here. It would have been a very different take on the character.

And Courtney Love would of course torn up the scenery in that role. But I'm glad she didn't play it I feel like she would have distracted from the whole film!

Is she Lebanese?

This deserves a huge "So what?"

Fincher is a perfectionist, and men like him, always have the final say, so I’m gonna go with: this was absolutely Fincher’s call.

She didn't say it in a woe-is-me way and the people assuming she did are idiots. Just read the article, for god's sake.

This is behind-the-scenes stuff and it's interesting. I also can't see Fincher blaming Norton for this just to cover his ass, because Fincher will flat-out tell someone what he's decided. He doesn't hide that it's his decision or blame others.

I like that Brad Pitt let her know he had nothing to do with it lmao

God bless Brad.

I like Janeane, but I don't know that I can see her in that role.

No, Janeane Garofalo, you didn't have the chop as you always played an annoying, kvetching, frumpy frau and you'd always be stuck in the 1990s. Be gone.

The casting of the role would not have been left in Norton's hands, nor Pitt's, unless they were producers. This is a story a crazy actress wrote in her head. Fincher changed his mind. That's all.

R-11, not Lebanese, reportedly asexual.

[quote]Like what if Jodie Foster had played Princess Leia (she almost did).

What?!

Is this common knowledge?

As soon as I read her name, I could picture Jodie and Mark playing brother and sister.

Wasn’t Jodie too young to play Leia?

Nobody likes Edward Norton

Good thing he was born rich and doesn’t need them to r23

Who knows, but Norton has always had a *MAJOR* jerkoff vibe to me. Beady hateful little eyes.

I love the detail of Courtney Love being up for the part at one point and Pitt saying, "Nope, then I'm out!" LOL!

Norton worked with Love and seemed fine with her.

Holy crap I did not know Jodie was offered the role of Princess Leia.

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I hate David Fincher because he was among the directors who started the trend of ugly grey blue lighting in every single movie. It suddenly became "cool" to make every film look like the before image in an antidepressant commercial. It is depressing, dreary, and ugly and he is the WORST offender.

It's not like he makes comedies. The look is his signature look. He was a music video director first and those are highly visually stylized. I appreciate his visual style.

Exhibit A. Probably his most famous and which put him on the hollywood radar.

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Right here,, ladies and gents.

Right here,, ladies and gents.

Also.

Here's the vid.

The full interview.

I always thought H B C was a miscast, but J G is even worst.

She’s not funny and looks like a sloppy dyke.

Turning into a grating frau very, very rapidly.

Aside from the obvious (drama queen, possible non-functioning drug user), I wonder why Brad Pitt said nope to Courtney Love?

R41 probably for all the reasons you mentioned. He probably also feels she is someone he wouldn’t be able to work with or look at and pretend to even find desirable

So does frau now mean "woman I dislike"? Because whatever else you can say about Garafalo, she is not a frau.

Edward “I just rewrote the entire script on every film I’m in” Norton

R44 How does he get away with that?

R45 For a while there he was the It Girl - highly nominated for awards and a draw by audiences... that is until he tried to fuck with The Incredible Hulk. They fired him and replaced him with Mark Ruffelo

Odd that Pitt would say that because at that time Courtney was actually on the straight and narrow, if not 'hot property' and had a good reputation. She was engaged to Ed Norton, had already won heaps of awards for Larry Flynt, was one of the faces of Versace, had her most commercially successful Platinum album (garnering 4 Grammy nominations for it), was on magazine covers everywhere and all over MTV, and was in other movies that year (200 Cigarettes, Man on the Moon, and shot the Joan Volmer biopic Beat). She also did the song for the Any Given Sunday soundtrack which was a huge hit movie, and had just recently won the award at the VH1 Fashion Awards beating out Kate Moss, Cameron Diaz, and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. She famously stood up for the gay community in her speech (which is below).

I know HBC was a more seasoned and acclaimed actress so it makes sense to have chosen her, even if I think Courtney's uninhibitedness and raw energy make her perfect for the role (and her 'rock girl' appeal might have made it even more of a cult classic). But Janeane Garofalo? With her blank facial expressions and deadpan line deliveries? Playing the witchy, sexed-up maniacal girl of Norton's fantasy/nightmare? I don't see it.

But i'm glad she called out what a douchebag Ed Norton is. He has been known for years to be one of the biggest cunts in Hollywood. There's a reason his career went to shit during his peak years when he probably could have had any role he wanted if he had just been nicer to folks.

Aside from American History X, for which he buffed himself up, Ed Norton has never been fuckable. That's why his career as a leading man stalled.

R48 no. It is because he shot himself in the foot and pissed off too many

I love that Janeane has her very own DL Troll. So devoted!

Norton's latest, Motherless Brooklyn, looks like self-indulgent ego masturbation. Are he and Joaquin Phoenix BFF?

I mildly like her,,,,but cant stand fincher or Norton, im told theyr both assholes to work with.

R50 Why thank you.

how in fuk is ed Norton a star?????whaat he got???????

Norton's ugly, always was. Pasty, sag-faced, even when fit. Permanent nerd face, with an irritating, nasal voice. He's another Spacey, I never saw what the hell people were raving about. He was an asshole because he was aware how basically unattractive he was, and hated himself for it.

I never liked Spacey as an actor. Way too cartoonish.

Short fugs like Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino had been stars, why couldn't Ed Norton and his adorable cherubic face?

He was a star. He ruined it.

Bump.