Cotillard won her Oscar for playing legendary French singer Edith Piaf

 

Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard is facing criticism after footage of her apparently questioning the 9/11 attacks surfaced on the internet.

 

In a interview she reportedly gave a year ago, the star is shown commenting on the events of 11 September 2001. "I think we're lied to about a number of things," the Paris-born 32-year-old is seen saying in French.

 

Cotillard's best actress Oscar was one of several awards she won for playing singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. She is due to begin filming gangster movie Public Enemies with actor Johnny Depp shortly.

 

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In the interview, given to French TV show Paris Premiere, Cotillard appears to suggest the attacks on the World Trade Center were staged to avoid the expense of refurbishing them. "We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned?" she asks. "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."

 

The Twin Towers, she claims, were a "money sucker" that would have cost much more to modernise than to destroy. The actress goes on to cast doubt on the Moon landing of 1969. "Did a man really walk on the moon?" she asks.

 

"I saw plenty of documentaries on it and I really wondered. In any case I don't believe all they tell me."

 

A transcript of Cotillard's interview has been posted on France's Marianne2 website.

 

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:uhoh: she is right a building in Spain burned for 24 hours and didn't colapsed (btw i think that investigations are still on this thing, because i don't know if it was said enough but there's nobody in jail for that yet and no reasons explained (on a video you could see that when it was burning there was people inside that were not workers or firefighters and there's not a solid explanation given to that fact) but some important documents burned on this building some documents like of the Ministery of Defense, that there were no reason why to be there as that building had officies of enterprises so economy things).

 

and to answer that women, WTC didn't colapsed for the fire, it colapsed because the plane crash damaged the structure of the building.

'9/11 attacks made up, ' says French best actress Oscar-winner

 

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, 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.

 

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 support for the invasion of Iraq.

 

President Nicolas Sarkozy insists he is pro-American, even supporting so-called "Anglo-Saxon" economic reforms.

 

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I bet Gareth is happy ;)

There's tons of people public on 9/11. Willie Nelson just went public recently and you can't get anymore true American than him - and it doesn't make me happy exactly - gives me more hope that eventually the masses will wise up.

 

Actually - It's only a matter of time before it's common knowledge. Seriously - there's no stopping truth.

 

There's a 9/11 page for this stuff too.

 

Well done - Marion - it's a brave, yet noble move.

 

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Marion Cotillard's comments have already provoked an international media smear campaign despite the fact that she is merely echoing a plethora of other highly respected public figures in questioning the establishment position......

Quite how expressing an opinion that matches with hundreds of other professors, scientists, former presidents, high government officials and intelligence veterans puts someone's career "in jeopardy" is not explained in the myriad of ad hominem hit pieces that have already surfaced over the course of today.

The Parliament of Japan, the former President of Italy, widely-respected CIA veteran Robert Baer and even American music icon Willie Nelson have all questioned 9/11 in recent months.

Since the attacks, a top former member of Tony Blair's cabinet, Germany's Secretary of Defense and the founder of Reagonomics have all slammed the official story - along with a cacophony of former government, military, intelligence and political professionals.

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and to answer that women, WTC didn't colapsed for the fire, it colapsed because the plane crash damaged the structure of the building.

 

The planes were pure misdirection.

 

Complete collapse from oxygen starved fire? Pull the other one........oh they did that one too (WTC7).....without a plane hitting it.

Contrived "Outrage" Dissipates In Aftermath Of Actress' 9/11 Comments

 

"A lot of people in Hollywood agree with her," points out Syracuse Professor

 

The phony media-contrived "outrage" that was generated in the wake of Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard's comments about 9/11, statements that supposedly threatened to "jeopardize her Hollywood career," has rapidly dissipated as one University professor is forced to admit that "a lot of people in Hollywood agree with her."

 

Immediately after the comments, which were first broadcast a year ago, were given attention on Sunday, an international media smear campaign swung into high gear attempting to tar Cotillard as anti-American and whip up a manufactured frenzy to ensure her career was mothballed.

 

In doing so, the establishment were seeking to make an example out of the actress and create a chilling effect to prevent other public figures sharing their doubts about 9/11.

 

The firestorm occurred at the end of another devastating two weeks for the official 9/11 story, after it emerged that one of the alleged hijackers had booked post-9/11 flights, in addition to the complete impartiality of the 9/11 Commission being exposed.

 

The complete failure of the media-contrived "outrage" was sealed after Cotillard refused to recant her comments and basically gave the middle finger to those who baselessly claimed the phony controversy would end her Hollywood career. Despite this, newspapers like the London Telegraph falsely claimed that Cotillard had "apologized" and backed down, when she had done no such thing aside from say her statements were taken out of context by the media.

 

As we pointed out, Cotillard expressed a sentiment that is shared by the majority of Americans, along with hundreds of intelligence experts, former Presidents and the Parliaments of major countries.

 

This assertion has again been vindicated by a report today that canvasses opinion amongst Hollywood media luminaries.

 

"I don't think by any means that this makes her persona non grata in Hollywood. A lot of people in Hollywood agree with her," states Robert Thompson, a professor of television at Syracuse University in New York.

 

"Everybody in America has a conspiracy theory," echoed Joel Stratte McClure, gossip columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News, adding: "Nobody is castigated or shunned" because of it.

 

"There's so much doubt with George Bush's policy today, that you could say that he planned it and people wouldn't get upset," he said of the 9/11 attacks.

 

"By voicing her opinions, she hasn't hurt herself at all," said Elizabeth Snead, another commentator for The Envelope.

 

"I don't think it will hurt her career," Snead said, noting that the director Oliver Stone has built a career out of films exploring conspiracies surrounding former presidents Richard Nixon and John F Kennedy.

 

Of course it won't hurt her career - it didn't hurt Charlie Sheen's career when he spoke out two years ago - because Cotillard is expressing an opinion held by the majority of the American people who also have grave doubts about the official 9/11 fairy tale.

 

The media's contrived attempt to create a chilling effect and prevent other public figures from speaking on the record about 9/11 has once again fallen flat on its face and only given 9/11 truth another international platform.

Ofcourse 9/11 was a hoax.

 

Everybody with a right mind should know.

 

Bravo Marion.

More famous people should open their hearts about this subject and share their opinions with the media.

Apparently she said this a a year or so ago and the press just decided to dig it back up to kick her off her pedestal.