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'9/11 attacks made up, ' says French best actress Oscar-winner
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updated at 00:31am on 3rd March 2008 Comments (11)
Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard has accused America of fabricating
the 9/11 attacks
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outdated "money-sucker" that would have cost more to modernise than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
do***entaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don't
believe all they tell me, that's for sure."
Cotillard, who was born and brought up in Paris, made the comments
on Paris Premihre - Paris Dernihre, a programme broadcast a year
ago.
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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.
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'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
But Cotillard, who lives with actor and director Guillaume Canet,
frequently tells interviewers she has no interest in money or
prestige.
Denying that she had any kind of "Anglo-Saxon ambition", she said
she prefers to "choose roles which suit me".
Despite her low-key image, Cotillard is an environmental activist
who once worked as a spokesman for Greenpeace.
News of her anti-Americanism comes as Franco-American relations
appear to be thawing, following Paris's refusal to show sup****t for
the invasion of Iraq.
President Nicolas Sarkozy insists he is pro-American, even sup****ting
so-called "Anglo-Saxon" economic reforms.
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