Comments on: Did You Know? Quentin Tarantino Asked Kurt Cobain To Play Eric Stoltz’s Part In ‘Pulp-Fiction’

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

I actually like the writing style of this piece. Don\’t stop.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

Um, I\’m pretty sure it came out that QT never offered Kurt that part. I thought this article was going to be show a quote of QT actually claiming this rumor to be true, but there is none. Is this the first time you guys heard about this? it\’s been on the imdb trivia page for years

By: Piotr

Piotr — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

\”New\”s

By: ronjay

ronjay — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

I don\’t think people said \”sick\” in those days….

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

Agree with Ken. Edward Davis stick to writing straight ahead articles, we really didn\’t need the terrible lead up to this boring ass news.

By: rodie

rodie — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

Nothing Courtney Love says is the absolute accurate truth. Literally nothing. It\’s almost humorously astonishing.

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

Kurdt Cobain was an English rose.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

Blogger: \”Hey guys, did you know ______? In case you didn\’t, I\’m going to tell you about it, framing it in an interesting, entertaining and poignant way.\”

The Internet: \”We already knew this and have known it for years. And this post is stupid.\”

unchill.

i, for one, didn\’t know this, and i find it very interesting and i hope QT makes a comment about it at some point soon to make this official-ize this bit of trivia (and if he does, he will do so because a bunch of blog posts and tweets—the thing you guys, who i am sure would like an official statement on this from Tarantino, are bitching about—start cropping up talking about it).

By: G.C.

G.C. — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

Actually, QT dispelled this rumor on the Howard Stern Show; said it never happened nor was the idea even considered.

By: cold hard truth

cold hard truth — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

anything cunty love says, is immediately suspect. Until that something is a confession.

By: Hayden Maxwell

Hayden Maxwell — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

I thought the piece was fun.

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

Yeah, Ken\’s right, this is bullshit. Why would he give a really cool role to Kurt Cobain. A MUSICIAN!

I remember hearing QT considered playing that role before the one he actually picked, that might be a total fabrication on my part but it sounds more credible than QT casting someone who\’d never acted before.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

I\’m sure Courtney Love only speaks the truth.

Really.

THIS is the news that\’s all over twitter? How about you put out the real truth, print what QT said on the Stern show?

By: Brandt Hardin

Brandt Hardin — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

That would have been a helluva ironic casting… Kurt Cobain changed my life with his music- I only wished he could have stuck around to make more. I paid homage to him on the anniversary of his death with my portrait of the grunge legend on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/04/in-memoriam-kurt-cobain-and-lane-staley.html

By: Suzy

Suzy — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

Indiewire, we expect more of you- QT has already said this is an urban myth, and you\’re printing Courtney Love as though it were the gospel?

Please quote the film makers and not the crazy publicity hounds, I mean really, how about an interview with Quentin instead?

By: IcyHot Stuntman Mike

IcyHot Stuntman Mike — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

Even if Cobain was offered the role, I doubt he would have been able to accept–he could barely control his life, let alone his band in \’93. Also, at this time, he was doing everything he could to dispel the image of his being a junkie in the public eye–mostly because he feared the courts would take his daughter away. Still, Cobain was ballsy and full of contradictions, so maybe playing a heroin dealer was right up his alley.

In a parallel universe, who knows? Maybe he never ran away from that rehab to kill himself. Maybe he got himself off drugs and on the right meds. Maybe Nirvana headlined Lollapalooza \’94 (so I could have seen them live and not lived with the greatest musical regret of my life). Maybe, in this parallel universe, he did indeed accept the role of Lance in Pulp Fiction (I\’m sure Courtney would have pushed her way in to play Lance\’s mouthy wife–you can totally see it, right?) and somehow you know he would have nailed the role in the peculiar way that David Bowie has always nailed his roles.

By the start of \’95, Nirvana would have gone bust and Dave Grohl would have started up the Foo Fighters right on time. Then Cobain could have enjoyed acting for a few years, while Courtney battled Dave to be Nirvana\’s rightful heir (in that universe, like this one, Dave would win). Cobain would have split with Courtney and gone into obscurity for a few years (raising farm animals or something). Then he would return to have a Neil Young-esque solo career. Flash ahead 17 years and with Grohl, Novoselic, and Smear recording on the latest Foo Fighters record, there would be rampant rumors of Nirvana reuniting. And they would for one more album and lunatic tour before calling it quits forever. Sound good?

Oh, to dream.

By: mark

mark — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

Why are you printing Urban Myths that QT has already debunked? A little research would have helped.

Do better, please!

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:29:27 +0000

Okay, haven't we all learned by now that if Courtney Love says something is the truth, we are to assume the opposite is true.