MARION COTILLARD - OSCAR WINNER MARION COTILLARD QUESTIONS 9/11 ACCOUNT

Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard has sparked controversy by questioning the official account of the September 11th terrorist attacks.

The 32-year-old actress picked up the best actress award at last months Oscar ceremony for her performance in La Vie en Rose, but now faces a backlash from the US public after her comments.

A French interview has surfaced on the internet showing the actress questioning the terrorist attacks on New York in 2001 as well as Neil Armstrong's famous 1969 moon landing.

"I think they lied about a number of things," Cotillard is shown describing the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre.

"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 [New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed," she said.

Cotillard suggested the World Trade Centre was a "money sucker" and could have cost so much to modernise that it was deemed easier to destroy them.

"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."

She also went on to question the official account of the US' moon landing.

"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," the actress said.

The comments were originally made by Cotillard on Paris Premiere – Paris Derniere last year.


02/03/2008 12:28:55