MARION COTILLARD - COTILLARD QUESTIONS EVENTS OF 9/11

COTILLARD QUESTIONS EVENTS OF 9/11

Oscar-winner MARION COTILLARD faces a potential backlash in America after casting doubt on the official account of the September 11 (01) terrorist atrocities in New York. The French star - who scooped the Best Actress Academy Award for her role in Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose - has controversially blasted the accepted theory that the two towers of the World Trade Center were brought crashing down by the two planes that struck them. She believes the skyscrapers, planned in the early 1960s, were considered an outdated "money sucker" that would have cost too much to modernise. In an interview in her native France, Cotillard said, "I think we're lied to about a number of things. 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." Cotillard also doubts the footage of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the moon in 1969 is genuine, and cites this as yet another example of her distrust in U.S. officials. She adds, "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."