So a French actress named Marion Cotillard has questioned the 9/11 tragedy, perhaps implying that the US deliberately destroyed the Twin Towers because it was cheaper to knocked 'em down with a coupla 747 jumbo jets and haul away the debris and bodies than to 're-cable' the buildings. "It was a money sucker," she said of the World Trade Center.
Now, Cotlillard is crying unfair saying her quote was taken 'out of context' and, merde, that it was from a silly 'old' interview anyway. An OLD interview? She said it in 2007...
The actress - who you've never heard of - won the Best Actress Oscar for 'La Vie En Rose' - has found herself in a new controversy racing around the internet after views of her conspiracy theories surfaced.
It was in a 2007 interview in which she blasted the accepted theory the World Trade Center was brought down by jumbo jets crashing into them at 500 mph.
Oh, and she expressed doubts about man having walked on the moon too.
Cotillard's lawyer, Vincent Toledano, insists the 32-year-old "never intended to contest nor question the attacks of September 11, 2001, and regrets the way 'old' remarks have been taken out of context."
"I think we're lied to about a number of things," Cotillard had said referring to the two passenger jets being flown into the Twin Towers: "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She added that the towers were an outdated "money-sucker" that would have cost more to modernize than to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.
"The towers of September 11 were stuffed with gold. 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."
Then she threw in the coup de grace: she also questioned the 1969 Moon landings - a mission hundreds of thousands of people worked on for 10 years to achieve. Yet, she questions that historic event too.
"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."
Well, hells bells! Then she won't believe this one either - it's a shot of the earth and moon photographed from Mars.
