Rosie O’Donnelldidn’t know about the first rule ofFight Club.
On Monday, O’Donnell appeared on SiriusXM’sThe Jess Cagle Showwhere she talked about spoiling the ending to the 1999 film onThe Rosie O’Donnell Show.
“I was just talking,” O’Donnell said of spilling the beans. “I didn’t think it was good and theSixth Sensewas out. It annoyed me, the movie. It just annoyed [me]. I was saying theSixth Sensemakes sense but this one doesn’t make sense because the thing at the end is sort of, well, I don’t know — that’s what I said.”
O’Donnell continued, “Nobody said jack s— to me for a good three years, maybe even four years—and I knew Courtney Love. She says, on my show, she says to me, ‘Oh my God,Ed NortonandBrad Pitt, they’re so mad at you for what you did. I was like, ‘What did I do?’ It was three years later! She says, ‘You ruined theFight Clubending.’ I only found it out a long time after the incident.”
(Love and Norton dated on-and-off from 1996 to 1998. They met while filmingThe People vs. Larry Flyntin 1995.)
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O’Donnell said she learned a valuable lesson, adding, “I guess I ruined it for the people who were, you know, who had worked so hard on it, I should be more careful with what I say in a negative way about a movie. You know, if you don’t like it, just don’t mention it. That sort of would have worked better.”
As for whether she ever made amends with either Norton or Pitt, O’Donnell said Norton has appeared on her radio show since then “so he must have forgiven me.”
In January 2020, Pitt spoke about attending the film’s world premiere at the Venice Film Festival while on theWTF with Marc Maronpodcast.
“For some reason, we thought it would be a good idea to smoke a joint before,” Pitt said, referring to his 35-year-old self and Norton.
Pitt recalled being sat next to the festival’s director for the formal screening. When the provocative film’s lines weren’t landing, the stoned actors couldn’t help but laugh.
“The movie starts, first joke comes up, and it’s crickets; it’s dead silence. Another joke, and it’s just dead silent … this thing is just not translating at all,” Pitt said. “The more it happened, the funnier it got to Edward and I. So we just start laughing.”
He added: “We’re the a—holes in the back laughing at our own jokes. The only ones laughing.”
One moment in the film prompted a displeased audience member to leave the screening, which proved ultimately humorous to Norton and Pitt, who said that the two “had a good time.”
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“At some point, it gets toHelena Bonham Carter’s line when she says, ‘I haven’t been f—ed like that since grade school,’ and I watched the festival guy who had been squirming the whole time get up and leave,” said Pitt. “He doesn’t say a word, he just gets up and leaves, which makes us laugh even more.”
The movie earned $101.2 million at the box office and polarized critics. It was called one of the most controversial films of 1999.
source: people.com
