Pink, who was once rumored to play Janis Joplin in a biopic about her almost two decades ago, recently commented negatively on the movie script and its ending in an interview with The Howard Stern Show on YouTube.
At the beginning of the 2000s, Pink was allegedly considered to play a significant influence in her career Janis Joplin. Later, she gave up on the role because she did not want to deal with the casting process, which, to her, was turning into a ‘circus’ according to Digital Spy news of the time. In a recent interview, she revealed that the casting contest was not the only problem with the movie.
The singer said she didn’t think Joplin wanted the movie to be made. According to Pink, this is why biopic projects about Janis Joplin have failed, along with the added difficulty of getting a ‘biopic done about a female.’ Additionally, Pink stated that they tried to romanticize her life and death with a happy ending, which was far from the truth, and she was not pleased with it.
The rock singer’s words on the matter read:
“You know, I think it’s—uh, I think honestly Janis doesn’t want it made. I think there’s a lot of things that go into that. I think it’s a lot harder to get a biopic done about a female. It’s why we don’t have many. And also, um, I just don’t think Janis want it made. There was some—Linda Perry was once slated to play Janice. Brittany Murphy: There’s been so many people. I mean, there’s had to have been at least ten projects that didn’t fly. And, uh, to me, that’s like—that’s a bigger—Janice wasn’t… Also, they wanna make it a happy ending. It’s not a happy ending! I mean it’s a completion but it’s not the truth. They want it to be that Janice chose to just end it in a—no, dude, she overdosed. And also, I wasn’t there, I can’t say the whole story but it certainly wasn’t a happy ending. She wasn’t even— ‘Pearl’ didn’t even take off until after she died.”
In the end, Pink was unhappy with the project as it did not fully respect Janis Joplin’s life and was not faithful to her real story. She thought the casting process was a frivolous one, and the ending was unnecessarily romanticized. Thus, she dropped out of it years ago.
