Speaking with NME recently, tentative member of the android resistance Aaron Paul mentioned that he’s been sitting on a desire to play iconic Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain ever since he moved to Los Angeles. This came in response to a question about Paul playing “Weird” Al Yankovic in a Funny Or Die video, with Paul saying that he “thought quite a bit about Kurt Cobain and what happened,” and that it “could be interesting” to play Cobain in a biopic.
It’s important to point out that he’s not saying “I’d like to play Kurt Cobain right now,” he’s just saying it’s something he has thought about, which is a helpful distinction because Aaron Paul is 40-years-old and Cobain died when he was 27. It’s not quite Willem Dafoe playing Vincent Van Gogh, but it is something that everyone would keep pointing out if someone made a Bohemian Rhapsody-style Cobain movie with Paul. Then again, Paul pretty much always seems to play younger than he really is, so it could work. Or, if they want to get real wild with it, they could do some alternate history thing—like, “Everyone knows Cobain died at 27, what this movie presupposes is… maybe he didn’t.” Or file off the serial numbers and let Paul play an aging grunge-rocker named Burt Bobain. Former lead-singer of Burbana, the band behind “Bells Like Bean Beer-it,” “Bart-shaped Socks,” and a legendary MTV Bunblugged berformance.
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No offense, Sam, but present-day Aaron Paul just barely passed for Jesse Pinkman last year, let alone Kurt Cobain.
Barely passed…hooray!
He’s got that over 35 fathead syndrome where you only gain weight in your cheeks and skull.
I believe the clinical diagnosis is “cocaine”
For me it was called “bread”.
Ohh THAT’S what I have!
Yes, exactly.
I just believed Aaron Paul as Pinkman, and I’ve never really believed him as anything else. There is no way he could play Cobain. None.
This came in response to a question about Paul playing “Weird” Al Yankovic in a Funny Or Die video, with Paul saying that he “thought quite a bit about Kurt Cobain and what happened,” and that it “could be interesting” to play Cobain in a biopic.I mean, he could always do both…
Weird Al was only 32 when he released it, so that would be a smaller age gap for Aaron Paul to play.
It’d be a close run thing, but I think I heard “Smells Like Nirvana” a little before I heard “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, so, as much as I love the original song, the parody feels slightly more iconic to me.
Yeah, but, what happened?
“Smells like teen spirit, bitch!”
aaron paul, to me, could pass for 25. i see a lot of people saying he looks too old, but he still looks youthful to me.