Actress Marion Cotillard sparked a political row yesterday after accusing America of fabricating the 9/11 attacks.
The 32-year-old French actress, who received an Oscar last month for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, openly questioned the truth behind the terrorist atrocity in an interview broadcast on a French website.
"I think we're lied to about a number of things," Cotillard said, singling out the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as an example of the US making up horror stories for political ends.
Referring to the two passenger jets being flown into the Twin Towers, Cotillard said:
"We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? They [sic] was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."
She added that the towers, planned in the early Sixties, were an outdated "money-sucker" that would have cost more to modernise than to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.
She said: "It was a money-sucker because they were finished, it seems to me, by 1973, and to re-cable all that, to bring up-to-date all the technology and everything, it was a lot more expensive, that work, than destroying them."
Cotillard's stardom and increased earning power looked assured following her Oscar win.
But after her outburst, in which she also queried the 1969 Moon landings, a successful future in Hollywood appears to be in jeopardy.
She said: "Did a man really walk on the Moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don't believe all they tell me, that's for sure."
Cotillard, we as we can see is well known for her, er acting ability.
Cotillard, who was born and brought up in Paris, made the comments on Paris Première - Paris Dernière, a programme broadcast a year ago.
At the time, her remarks were largely ignored, but their appearance yesterday on the French magazine website Marianne2 comes at a time when Cotillard's profile is sky-high.
She is shortly due to fly to Chicago to star alongside Johnny Depp in Public Enemies, a gangster movie expected to be her first big money-spinner.
Cotillard's film career began in Luc Besson's 1998 film Taxi - a huge hit in France but less so around the world.
She is slowly becoming a household name in France, in a list most recently topped by her close friend Audrey Tautou and previously by women such as Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot.
**Yet another US moonbat, who when she realises that this has truly fucked her chances in Hollywood will do the celeb thing of backtracking and claiming she was misquoted along with the usual therapy bullshit.
Maybe there is some inverse law that states that the stupidity of starlets is in direct proportion to the size of their tits?
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What do ya mean 'backtracking', i would have thought such BS about conspiracy theories and hate-America sentiment, she'd be welcomed with open arms into hollywood. After all isn't the truth just opinion really? To lefties that is.
Yeah, but they have to watch out as the election is coming up and the Republicans may win!
Sweet Jesus. Give the woman a break. She happens to be a phenomenal actress, who is entitled to her own opinion. It obviously didn't occur to you that people from other countries- specifically countries with whom the Unites States has not bothered to foster friendly relations- might be skeptical of our foreign policies.
And showing one of her nude scenes as a sarcastic example of her acting ability is just juvenile.
Anon are you her?
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