
Just one week after winning a best actress Oscar and giving a cutesy speech that involved the word "angels," French star Marion Cotillard is under fire because of statements she made a year ago regarding the 9/11 attacks. At the time, Cotillard was speaking to a French television program, and, boy, does she sound zany!
“I think we’re lied to about a number of things,” Cotillard said. “We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes. Are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there (in New York), in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.”
Were that not bad enough, the best actress went on to say that the Twin Towers' destruction was actually helpful, as it would have cost more to update the old buildings than simply start anew. Hmm. Pass the freedom fries, please.
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Who better to question matters of building infrastructure than an actor? Certainly not architects or engineers.
Anyways, has she ever been to NYC? A thirty-year-old building is pretty young. I don't know where she is getting this "massive updates" thing from.
Wow does that picture ruin my whole "she's beautiful" opinion.
Ah, the hazards of sudden fame… everything you ever said years ago when no one cared, can and will come back to bite you in the ass.
first off, they are old comments
secondly, SHE IS RIGHT! she has no right saying it as a non-american who didnt live through it, but IT IS TRUE.
why is everyone so frazzled by someone speaking out about this and their opinions on it? why is it forbidden to even question? again, she is not the right person, but it IS a popular thought
i hate that people choose (yes, choose) to live in denial about this stuff and beleive everything the government tells them……THAT is antiamerican
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She has every right to question the 9/11 attacks. ALOT of strange things happened that day.
I don't agree with her statement about starting fresh - but it is suspicious how the buildings collapsed…
I read the article and she also thought that the moon landing might have been a charade, I happen to know a few people who think the same thing. I don't know, I’m not a tin-foil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist; I've got other things to fret about. This is all a non-issue to my non-existent opinion of her.
whitney sure knows how to bring out the crazies.
Suckers. Moon landing, my ass. I've heard from a reliable source that you can't even land on the moon because it's made from cheese. And those supposed moon rocks are nothing more than painted styrofoam. How can you even take off on some new fangled rocket ship when the earth is flat?
And I have no clue who is the right person to be spouting the crazy talk. Rosie O Donell, everytime I hear the same crap from her I want to punch her in the face with a moon pie. But she'd eat it.
moon pies…. yummy.
Moon pies = yummy
Moon landing = conspiracy
Cattle mutilations are up.
I just love how actors think they can just spout off comments on anything and everything and think that people will actually care what they say. It reminds me of something else, umm, to do with commenting…hmmm…on? I want to say a website but that can't be right. Everyone knows that if you post on a website you know everything and your opinion is the only right one and everyone else is jus jealouse of you…haterz.
Cant we all just get along? PEACE people….Peace.
Oh fuck that, what fun would that be?
Cord, you must be so happy to have a good opportunity to do some french bashing. How are your pals Jay Leno, Bill O, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Sean Hannity doing? Still licking Rove's and Cheney's ass?
Anyway. Cotillard has lost a good opportunity to shut up the day she was on Paris Dernière. She also questioned the accidental death of Coluche, a famous comedian, and the moon landing. Must have been her brain suffering from rarefied oxygen in the Paris Catacombs, where the show was taking place.
well i used to love her but it's all over now… it would be helpful if you shoved that Oscar up your ass and went back to France.
juju, will you pay my membership dues to the flat earth society?
much obliged.
9/11 conspiracy theorists drive me insane. These people usually are the ones that are incredibly far removed from the situation too. Like a french actress. I really don't know how much more evidence these people need other than every news station in NYC filming the planes flying into the buildings on live tv.
i have never heard anyone question whether the north and south towers were hit by planes. i have heard reasonable questions about whether that would have brought down those towers. as well as many questions about why wtc#7 which was not hit, suddenly imploded hours later.
STM, I would pay but I've just discovered the Department of Treasury is a front for the Free Masons. I will no longer be paying bills. I refuse to support those pagans. Viva Commies.
Yeah, I guess my comment was a little vague. I just don't understand how people think buildings were laced with explosives. I mean, we saw GIANT planes hit the buildings! I'm sure that causes some pretty catastrophic damage - to the buildings themselves and also surrounding buildings. Questioning why the other WTC buildings fell seems sort of weird to me - I'm sure when towers 1&2 fell they did some major damage to buildings surrounding them and if not, at least caused some sort of earthquake-like effects. Regardless, I'm not an expert and neither is Cotillard - so feel free to ignore us both.
People should always question their government. The old saying has never rang so true: the government should be afraid of the people, not the other way around. Get your heads out of the sand and go to infowars.com.
Thanks Elizabeth! Crazy old Marion! The Americans are ALWAYS right, with vietnam, japan, cold war, all those nuclear bombs or god; how dare she EVER raise the question that one should ever question their government. She is insane. Clearly. Oh but hey if she showed her vagina at every opportunity, was cruel to her kids or just the average mental celebrity-well, we can forgive that and give the benefit of the doubt.
Wow, that's a whole large bag of crap boo hoo and Elizabeth. You all assume way too much. Like that the majority of Americans are blindly agreeing with our goverment. Hmm, it seems to me the majority of Americans are pissed with our current goverment.
There is currently a lot of distrust of our government so pull your head out of sand. Just because we don't see your conspiracy as fact doesn't make us all sheep.
I don't recall people running out of the building talking about seeing these so called explosives. There would have to be a large amount of explosives to bring down all those buildings. Where were they? Why did nobody see them?
The planes were on video flying into the buildings. People witnessed it with their own eyes. Were they all lying? Bullshit.
i thought it was superman who hit those buildings. you know that bulge that looks like his package? that's not his johnson, it's dynamite.
DYNO MITE!!
marion has just as much a right to an opinion as anyone else. i don't agree that celebrities have no right to voice their opinions. hell, if they believe in something strongly, why shouldn't they use their status and money and fame for the greater good? admittedly, i liked angelina jolie a lot more when she was banging chicks or wearing vials of blood around her neck, but she seems to feels strongly about the humanitarian work she's doing. so why shouldn't she speak out and use her fame for something other than flashing her hot pocket and spreading herpes like some celebs. i won't name names, but it starts with "p" and ends in "aris."
that said, it doesn't necessarily make a whole lot of sense to spout off when you're being trailed by paps 24-7. if all the stupid shit i've said was documented, well… let's just say i'd probably be in federal prison.
It's one thing to have an opinion, but when you're talking about something like that, at least have your facts straight. If you question your government that is fine and should be expected, but unless you actually understand the mechanics of the engineering that went into that building, then don't talk. Flippant statements are fine, but you should watch your ass when your talking about thousands of people who died.
oh joe…how many times do, ya know, scientists, need to refute the 'evidence' a few frat boy retards who cobbled together some news reports and added spooky music from their Casio portable keyboard offered up before you perhaps pull your head out of your ass?
The Madrid tower is made of completely different material (concrete) oh and there were floors that collapsed internally FYI. There has never been a building hit dead on by a fully fueled jumbo jet in this fashion. Ever.
She and you and the rest of the troofers are retards. Sorry.
@Elizabeth: I 100% agree that you should question the government, but blindly accepting every half baked utter bag of shit conspiracy theory as unassilable fact, is not only moronic, it really lessens any argument you may have about anything else.
Infowars is a prime example of the 'well if someone offers it up, it must be true' way of thinking. Absurd.
IF YOU CAN'T BLAME THE PEOPLE FOR WHAT YOUR GOVERMENT DOES WHO CAN YOU BLAME. IS IT NOT GOVERMENT OF THE PEOPLE.
MAYBE THATS OLD FASHION
Sorry Chelsea, it hasn't been Government of the people for a very long time. It is now the Government of the very very rich. Our country as we know it is gone.
Most humans only concentrate in the moment and forget about the world's history of treachery, distrust, war, famine and defeat. What is going on now is nothing new. In America at least we have forums to express our gripes. Miss Cottilard has that right too and we have every right to disagree or agree with her. In my 60 years, having traveled the globe many times I know some things are constant. Yes, why can't we all just get along…and live in peace?
About 95% of the people posting on this forum have no idea what they are talking about. Unless you all are fluent in Parisian French and have seen the year-old video yourself, you either have a bad translation, are quoting rightwing media reports, or just passing along what gossip you've heard. That's a hell of a way to defame someone — just like highschool. The fact is, Marion Cotillard did not say what you all are saying she said. And she said nothing anti-American, and nothing about the 9/11 victims or their families. She did not deny the Holocaust! Get a grip! There are most important issues in America today, like the fact that the nation is sliding into bankruptcy, spending $14 BILLION a month in Iraq, and is trying to elect a new president. Leave Mlle. Cotillard be, or someone will find a video of you saying something in conversation a year ago and try to embarrass you.