Actress Marion Cotillard Questions 9/11 Attacks - Page 2
Her insinuation that the towers were a "money-sucker" and it would be cheaper to fly planes into them in a form of demolition-via-aircraft are ironically laughable in the knowledge that the economy of Lower Manhattan was devastated after the planes flew into the buildings. This doesn't even include the effect the attacks had on the economy of New York as a whole, not to mention New Jersey and Washington. She also hasn't taken into account that the attacks and the ensuing aftermath have already cost New York almost $95 billion dollars, the Pentagon around $500 million dollars, and the incalculable cost it has taken on the lives and psyches both of those who lost loved ones and those who survived.
All that to tear down two buildings in a cost-effective manner.
The actress later insisted that it was all a misunderstanding, and that her remarks should in no way affect her acting career, in particular the new movie she's making with Johnny Depp:
Her Paris-based lawyer Vincent Tolesano said: "Marion never intended to contest nor question the attacks of September 11, 2001, and regrets the way old remarks have been taken out of context."The apology coincided with Cotillard preparing to fly to Chicago next week to start filming Public Enemies with Johnny Depp - a movie that was set to become the first big money spinner for the previously unknown actresses .
In fact Cotillard, a green activist for Greenpeace, had used an interview with the French channel Paris Première to make her views abundantly clear.
Speaking on the cinema discussion programme Paris Dernière in February 2007, Cotillard had said: "I think we're lied to about a number of things", even claiming the Americans
had destroyed the Twin Towers themselves because the were an outdated "money sucker".
Expanding her conspiracy theory, Cotillard said it would been "a lot more expensive" to rebuild the towers "which is why they were destroyed", with the loss of thousands of American lives.
Never intended to question the attacks? Remarks taken out of context? It's amazing how people can backpedal when millions of dollars are at stake. Lives, however, apparently are expendable. If you don't like it here, then go make your little movies somewhere else. Continued on the next page
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