Courtney Love Is Not Vain At All

noah | January 14, 2008 12:30 pm
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Along with the news that Ryan Gosling has been hand-selected by Courtney Love as the man who will play Kurt Cobain–and get raked over the coals by pretty much every self-styled pundit who owns a copy of Nevermind forthwith–comes the tidbit that she has chosen Scarlett Johansson to play, um, Courtney Love. You can debate the visual accuracy of this bit of casting via the compare-and-contrast pics above (the one of Courtney’s actually from 1995, but it’s still a pretty good representation of her pre-plastic-surgery self, I think), but as someone who knows Hole’s catalog–and Courtney’s persona during the Live Through This years–pretty well, I would think that La Love would want someone who could, y’know, emote to play her, va-va-voom curves be damned.

Scarlett Johansson to play Courtney [Mirror] [Photo: AFP / Getty]