Conspiracy beliefs come back to haunt Marion Cotillard

Shes entitled to her opinion.
I agree with her more than disagree with her

What actors and entertainers must understand is the fact it is the public's approval of their work that make them high profiled individuals. They should know that they, as public figures and "non-politicians", have every right to express their opinions on anything outside their profession. However, the flip side is, the very same public that made them "stars" also have the right to criticize and scrutinize "what" they state in public.

As actors, whatever they believe socially or politically and reveal to the media, has its fruits or ramifications. It's not a one way street.

The sword cuts both ways and high profiled entertainers should know that. Know the rules, know the players, then let her rip. But, the public has a right to free speech too, and condemnation is part of the package.

Nice comeback Scott, touche! I guess I misspoke about the cellphone calls but perhaps you should explain your position on in flight cell phone operation to this man:
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/akd/akd.html
He has written a couple of articles on the subject here http://physics911.net/projectachilles
and here
http://physics911.net/cellphoneflight93
It has also recently become questionable whether any of the alleged airplanes involved were in fact equipped with passenger seatback airfones so the authenticity of any passenger calls on 9/11 remains in doubt. As for pissing on the testimonies of the victims' families, read what Lorie Van Auken, one of the Jersey Girls, has to say here (note her personal experience with in-flight cell phone usage) :
http://www.911blogger.com/node/14058
Your American Airlines flight manifest is, at minimum, an obviously 'doctored' document and most probably completely bogus. I'm quite certain a 'real' flight manifest would not include 'SUSPECTED TERRORIST IN BOLD TYPE' in the heading. Nice try though. It could possibly be accepted as confirmation of the OCT by the feeble of body and weak of mind. I would think that your inability to link to a 'real' flight manifest does little to bolster your position and nothing to debunk my claim of no Arab names. As for identifying plane wreckage, I was referring to the hundreds of uniquely serial numbered components found on all commercial aircraft as discussed here:
http://physics911.net/georgenelson
Not random parts and debris shown in photographs without any visible identifiers. It's so difficult for me to understand someones fanatical embrace of the official 9/11 fairytale despite the mountain of such obvious, in your face, contradicting evidence but, whatever. You go right on believing whatever you want, it's your right. The only problem I would have with it is, if, because of your unwillingness, denial, stubborness, inability, whatever, to see past the obvious lies and deceptions, the real perpetrators, the criminals, the real terrorists of 9/11, are never investigated and brought to justice. That would be shameful.

The woman is an ACTRESS. The Dixie Chicks are/were MUSICIANS...they have a right to free speech, they are NOT politicians. The French actress is just verbalizing what a fraction of America is thinking. True or not true, she is an ACTRESS!

What's worse, her comment, or what the world views of Hollywood and Hollywood reporters?

Tom,
so foerigners dont have the right to free speech?

Lester, my camera may be japanese, but the telescope I use it on was manufactured in the good ol' USA. Not sure what that really has to do with anything though. Good to hear that you now accept the reality of Apollo though, I was about to break out the photos taken by private observatories of the Apollo flights, including one that caught the Apollo 13 explosion on film. Apollo happened, end of story.

As for your 9/11 nonsense, you're full of lies and distortions. I don't have time to dispell every single lie you can spew out, but all I need to do is disprove a single lie to prove how untrustworthy you are. You CAN make cell phone calls on airplanes, but thanks for pissing all over the testimony of the victims' families who spoke with their relatives shortly before their deaths. Not to mention the fact that most of the passengers were using the seat back phones, which also work quite well on airplanes. The only reason you're not allowed to use cell phones on airplanes is so that there is no risk of you disrupting the navigation system. The only issue for the cell phone is the speed at which it is moving from cell to cell, which increases the likelyhood of a dropped call at some point. These were not hour long coversations though, and in some cases they were dropped as you might expect. It is, however, entirely possible:
Neil Whitehouse was jailed for a year for texting during a British Airways flight - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/07/22/nphon22.html. Passengers with older analogue phones could have easily used them on planes at altitude as well: "Some older phones, which have stronger transmitters and operate on analog networks, can be used at a maximum altitude of 10 miles"
http://www.slate.com/id/1008297/
Back in 2001 many more people still had those older style phones as well, myself included. Other experts agree that it's entirely possible:
"From high in the sky, a cell phone acts like a sponge, sucking capacity out of the cellular sites that carry calls. For ground users, cell phones communicate by connecting to one cell site at a time, from the air, because of the height and speed of an aircraft, the phones often make contact with several sites at once."
http://www.hindu.com/seta/2003/10/31/stories/2003103100110300.htm
"Although airline passengers are warned against using their mobile phones in flight, it's fairly well-known that private airplane pilots often use regular cellular and PCS phones, even if it is illegal."
http://www.wirelessweek.com/index.asp?layout=story&articleId=CA160201&stt=001
"An FCC study in 2000 found that cell-phone use aboard aircraft increases the number of blocked or dropped calls on the ground. That's because at high altitude, cellular signals are spread across several base stations, preventing other callers within range of those base stations from using the same frequencies. "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A14290-2003Jun19?language=printer
That puts to rest this outright lie that you can't connect a cell phone call in an airplane.

The rest of your drive-by hits are also complete nonsense. To cover a couple bases quickly, there was plenty of identifying wreckage, even at the pentagon. Would you like me to post a link to a picture of one of the engines? Oh wait, just watch loose change, it's in there, only they claim it's the wrong type of plane. Just one problem, they weren't looking for the correct type of plane to begin with. Nor did they check it with the manufacturer of the correct type of plane, they called a completely unrelated company who said "we don't make that here." No joke. And no "arab names" on the passenger manifest? I call BS on that. Are you suggesting that the hijackers' names aren't Arab? No, you're probably trying to suggest that they simply aren't found of the "passenger manifest." The usual source cited by CT nutjobs for the manifest is this: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA11.victims.html as well as this: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/ua93.victims.html

There's a clue as to why they're not found on this "manifest" in the URL though; VICTIMS. Hijackers don't count as victims. The names were also compiled from press reports, not from a manifest obtained from the airline. Other sources though DO have the real manifest, not that CT liars would dare use such a source as they would find out that the hijackers WERE onboard: "The Globe said according to the manifest, Mohamed Atta, one of the suspected terrorists, was assigned seat 8D in business class on American Airlines Flight 11, directly across the aisle from Hollywood producer David Angell and his wife, Lynn, who were in seats 8A and 8B, respectively."
http://graphics.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/images/aa_flight_11_manifest.gif
Sorry Lester, you're full of lies it seems.

Tom O'Neil did himself, the LA TIMES, and Marion Cotillard a real disservice when he chose to editorialize about the efffect her off-the-cuff remarks in a YEAR OLD interview would have on her career. Her remarks were "dangerous," Tom said. No, GW Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rove are dangerous. Cotillard is a brilliant actress recently on her first visit to the US. The interview Tom helped bring to light was done long before she ever dreamed she would be spending two months in the US at the end of 2007. I am very disappointed to see that the LA TIMES allowed Tom to editorialize in this fashion, and hope the Hollywood community will bash him as some are insulting Mlle. Cotillard due to his "reporting." Don't we have a country to fix? A president to elect? Why drag up a year-old story just to damage someone? Or did Tom ask her while she was here what her views were on the world, so he could get an update?

Okay, you win. We DID walk on the moon and the images from LROC will confirm that fact for me and, hopefully, for Marion as well. Canon is a very fine Japanese camera. Now, what about...my pet goat, WTC7, put options, cipro, molten steel, the Mineta testimony, dancing Israelis, pull-it, flight passenger manifests with no Arab names, impossible cell phone calls (yeah, it's impossible to make a cell phone call from a cruising airliner), Controlled Demolition Inc., Ames strain unsolved anthrax attacks, zero identifying parts from any of the aircraft, the Pentagon? The Pentagon, the single most secure building in the world. The very heart of the western military apparatus. It is ringed by surface to air missiles and has a whole air force base dedicated to protect it. Yet more than an hour after the first plane hits the WTC, it gets slammed by a big, lumbering, passenger jet. No warning, no alarms, no evacuation orders, just kerblooey. It gets hit by a big, lumbering, passenger jet right where Rumsfeld's crack accounting team is working to find the missing 2.3 trillion dollars he told the world was lost by the Pentagon the day before. You know Scott, on second thought, I changed my mind. I do not believe we ever walked on the moon and I won't believe it even if I see the LROC photos. I want to see the images from someone else. Japan, China, India, Russia, maybe then I'll believe it. I will never trust any govt., or anyone who works for such, who murders its own people.

Never underestimate the stupidity of actors and actresses.

Tom, angels in LA refers to Los Angeles, as well as the fact that she was welcomed with open arms here. Your lead story is skewed to your opinion by your choice of words (bizarre, belief in the fantastic etc.)

In any event she has apologized, she meant no harm to the tragic loss of life.
I had dear friends on the Pentagon flight, and I miss them terribly but I do not grab a torch, incite the crowd and call for her burning.

Paullacques, just for starters, the last camera I bought was Canon XTI, and I'm quite well versed in photographing the moon and other celestial objects. Personally attacking my expertise is foolish since you don't even know me.

Perhaps you don't realize this, but the LM's landing gear span was only 9 meters and the actual base of the craft was 4.27 meters in diameter. The landing gear span isn't relevant as the legs of the craft are far below 10 meters in diameter themselves and have no chance of showing up on any of Selene's camera's. The entire LM, legs and all, is less than a pixel on Selene's camera, and you can't fudge those numbers just because they look "close enough" to you. You should study photography more if you don't realize what the limiting resolution consequently means for being able to see the lander.

You should also realize that, like it or not, NASA is the world's most advanced space bureau, and you should also realize that half of every camera's performance is the lens system. LROC uses a Kodak KLI-5001G CCD, they're some of the best, but it also uses a Ritchey-Chretien telescope for a lens.

I see no reason at all to distrust the science team for LROC, they're an international team too, not just from america (Harald Hiesinger is one of the main science investigators, and he's in germany), so if you're claiming that because it's an american spacecraft it "can't be trusted" you're wrong. Thanks for proving my point though; you can take pictures of the landing site and these conspiracy theorists still won't change their beliefs.

You were either wrong or lying about the resolving capabilities of Selene as it applies to the Apollo LEM, you claim to be disintrested yet you have obviously armed yourself with conspiracy theorist points on the matter, so why should I trust anything else you say? You sir, are not to be trusted. Either you're seriously misinformed about these matters or you're an outright liar.

je suis francaise, et suis degoutee de la remarque de mme cotillard. Ce sont les remarques d'un"RED NECK". If she wants success iun the USA she should stay out of politics. No wonder her film is not showing with all the others Oscar winners

There is a great deal of science based interest in a much larger conspiracy surrounding 9/11, mostly based on the impossibility of three huge buildings collapsing in identical fashion, a collapse pattern matched only in controlled demolitions.

The L.A. Times is hasty to label Cotillard's comments as "wacko." Of course, the Times is usually about 5 years behind in their coverage of what really happens around the world. Check out their coverage of Reagan's covert wars in Central America for a classic asleep at the wheel journalism.

It's sad that hard hitting criticism of our dangerous government is usually done by entertainment figures, but someone's got to do it. Vive Cotillard!

Scott, http://www.selene.jaxa.jp/en/equipment/tc_e.htm
10m/pixel is what the Japanese are copping to on their website for the terrain camera spatial resolution. Ten meters is about what the landing gear span of the Apollo Lunar Module was/is. If they're there, it should see them. I just want confirmation/proof from a disinterested 3rd party. Our govt. hoaxed us with the 9/11 Arab hijacker fairytale, why wouldn't they have hoaxed us with Apollo? The retroreflectors are not proof as they could have been placed by unmanned, robotic, spacecraft. I find it a bit odd that only the American spacecraft will have a camera capable of imaging the lunar surface with enough resolution to see the Apollo remnants. So you're going to trust the American spacecraft (probably using a Japanese camera), but not the Japanese? What was the last camera you bought, a Kodak Instamatic?

Lester, none of the probes currently orbiting the moon have the resolution necessary to see the equipment left behind by Apollo. Man really did walk on the moon though, as proven by tons of moon rocks that show no signs of atmospheric heating, and by laser ranging retroreflectors set in place by the astronauts. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which will head to the moon this year, will be the first probe that has enough resolution to detect the Apollo equipment, and indeed, they're planning on doing just that. Lester, what are you going to say later this year when LRO images the apollo landing sites and finds everything in place? I already know what you'll say, you'll claim the LRO team is a bunch of liars and that they somehow faked the pictures. You set a goalpost you have no intent of honoring.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/jul/18/spaceexploration.internationalnews

Élyse Addams : Awesome! You display such an ignorance of basic facts (superheated jetfuel burning for hours? That could be funny is the issue wasn't so serious)... Your rant is a wonderful advertisement for true skepticism regarding the events of 9/11.

You will make many people think for themselves, thanks for that.

Right now, as I am writing this, there are two (2) robotic spacecraft in lunar orbit. One is from Japan and the other from China. They've both been up there for several months now. They're loaded with state of the art scientific telemetry instruments, including high resolution cameras. They're in low orbit and the moon has no atmosphere. The question has to come to mind, where are the photos? Where are the photos of Tranquility Base?

Hello All:

I have heard a lot about 911 and if it was a US govt job or if it wasnt. It definitely was a govt job. I say this as an intellectual because I personally went to NYC myself to look into it---as I thought it was THAT important. There are some people commenting this and that and quite frankly they have never been to NYC, NJ, or any of its environs. They know absolutely nothing about NYC. And as I was born in NJ and grew up there for some time. I want to add that I was in NYC for the 911 remembrance this past year---2007. I was lucky enough to meet with Dylan Avery and Jason Bermas of the Loose Change films (both I and II, please watch films at googlevideo.com) and also Willie Rodriguez who was the head "janitor" of both towers and was supervisor to a staff of over 50. I personally went to the footprint and saw for myself the travesty. I do not claim to know the most on the topic, but I know more than most. All others in writing in this blog do not have the insight I do on this matter. It brings tears to my eyes to hear someone say it was not an inside job. I have never written on a blog before, so this is my first time. I am usually someone who reads and get angry sometimes and then sometimes happy. I am writing this blog because there was AN INDIVIDUAL THAT SAID THAT MRS. COTILLARD'S STATEMENT DOES NOT RESPECT THE FIREFIGHTERS who died. The truth of the matter is the US govt did not and still does not respect the firefighters and other first responders because they now die slowly and agonizingly from inhalation of toxins (including asbestos and other contaminants) that the US govt will not recognize and PAY FOR!! The can not breathe for GOD'S sake. If that person had not blogged that information---I would not have replied tonight. The proof is SO overwhelming that I have forgotten more than I have retained on the subject. The info/video includes testimony from ppl in the building when they first started running out the bldg and were asked questions upon exiting the bldg.--this includes WTC 7. There are also SOOO many other websites with that video---it is suprising. If you need some of those sites please email me and I will send you some. I also have a pic w/ Willie Rodriguez when I was in NYC--he has a website that has video of his staff telling the stories you probably have not heard before---or seen before as the info is in video format. Willie Rodriguez has his own website (he is affectionately known as the "keymaster" because he had the skeleton key that opened doors for many first responders and other bldg occupants and saved many lives that fateful day) www. william911.com. William has become an ambassador to the accounts of 911. The French lady Mrs. Cotillard has a right to her free speech and can believe whatever she wishes even on topics such as alien abductions--if she wishes. Thank You and if you need any websites with regard to this please email me at thirdworldweb@email.com. I am an American and started this website when I was living outside of the U.S, over 7 years ago. Richie, someone who sought the TRUTH and did not just talk about it!!

I think Cotillard is hot. don't care what she thinks. Someone please tell her that although the Tri-Lateral Commission has done everything in its power to hide the truth, I'm the world's greatest lover.

I think we'd all be in deep trouble if everyone recorded every flippant remark that came out of our mouths and replayed it for the world to see. So please don't call the kettle black and we're all quite blackened. I'm tired of this holier than thou tone that is used against every up and coming celebrity.

I live in LA surrounded by the culture of idolizing movie stars. Every now and then I need to be reminded why I dislike them so much. Marion Cotillards comments do just that.

Why does it matter what an actress says about anything?

Just give them their lines, otherwise they don't often say much that's worthwhile to repeat.

Save the whales!

Is she calling Osama Bin Laden a liar?

Man, she going to be in more trouble in France, slandering one of their national heroes like that.

How the hell did she win an Oscar? Did we run out of British women to give Oscars too? Aside from that transxual guy Hilary Swank, no American has won best actress in a long time. If Meryl Streep was still alive, she would have turned over in her grave.

I weep for the abuse the English language and dignified debate have suffered in these comments.

This is how low news print has sunk in our culture. Slinging bseless, McCarthy-istic slander at innocent actors.
Notice how all of these articles about Cotillard show the same pattern: the headline that suggests that Cotillard is in DEEP trouble, facing slings and arrows and deep criticism; a couple quotes about her 9/11 views; a quote about the moon landing; and NO ACTUAL CRITICISM.

If Mme. Cotillard is facing career-threatening criticism, where is it?!?

It is articles like this one that are generating the "criticism" simply by suggesting it in the headlines. I've yet, in any articles about this, to encounter what these supposed "harsh criticisms" are!

Most shamefully, Mr. O'Neil, in your final paragraph you insinuate that Cotillard is "well known for believing in the fantastic."
First: Her comment about angels was a good-natured pun on Los Angeles being Spanish for "The Angels," something I have seen done countless times in taglines on TV news and in print. It is almost cliched.
Second: Belief in angels, far from being considered fantastic, is considered mainstream religious belief in this country. I'd like to see your paper do a piece assaulting US Christians and Jews for their "fantastic" belief in angels. That'd be the day!!!
Third: Your statement, that Cotillard is "well known for believing in the fantastic," cannot be applied to her 9/11 views, as this article is supposed to be exposing these new views. Her pun about angels is hardly fantastic. So you must, as a so-called journalist, retract or substantiate your libelous statement. I see no evidence to establish a pattern of odd or fantastic behaviour on Mmme. Cotillard's part.

What do you folks think about zeitgeistmovie.com? Anybody seen it? - It's almost 2 hrs. long but it sure can be food for thought.

I just saw a picture of Dr Judy Wood and want to know if she got her teeth from Condi Rice.
Where did this nitwit get her decree? From some matchbook coupon?
And as to the great intellect French star: do you still move your lips when you read?
This is great nonnews and the paper shows its lack of integrity again.
No wonder your circulation is dropping.
The Weekly Reader rides again!!!

It's normal, she's FRENCH ! !

Our government thinks it is acceptable to lie. They admit to lying later, telling us it was for our own good. Remember, what is past is prologue. And patriotism is the virtue of the viscous.

I think that those are just her beliefs and that she is getting so much crap because she is in the spot light... What about all the others who actually believe similar things.. do we publicly slander them too?

There are many things that the government doesn't tell the american people, or at least they don't tell the full truth.

I think that there was a lot of things for our government to gain by having terrorists attack US soil. War? Retaliation agendas?

Look at other victories in history... lots of loss for what... land.. religion..power. However allowing collateral damage is never okay in my eyes.

I cant even begin to give a theory for 9/11 that gives answers for everything that happened because whatever groups took part they were able to cover their tracks with enough reasonable doubt.

If you want to know some sort of truth in anything you must look at many different forms of information and beliefs and then you will get a bigger picture upon which you base your beliefs.

Want to know what's (really) happening in America read foreign press....

9/11 was an inside job...is that too far-fetched a concept?...No. I always say connect the dots and follow the money....Ask yourself...who has benefited a great deal from 9/11? The widows? the Saudis? Bush and family? Cheney and family? Corporate America? The terrorists? Israel? Bush/Cheney's cronies?....connect the dots and follow the money....you'll get your answers and it's not pretty...in fact downright treason and just disgustingly ugly....Impeach Bush/Cheney--War Criminals!!

If these bizarre comments had been publicized before the Academy voted, Julie Christie would have the Oscar she deserved in the first place.

"These are not unfounded opinions. Not only is there a worldwide movement of scholars..."

Your definition of "scholars" may diverge radically from that of most people here. It took me about 90 seconds to discover that Wood theorizes that the Twin Towers were destroyed by a space-based death ray.

Arguing that a group of well-educated people believes (or claims to believe) something, and that they therefore have a point, constitutes a formal fallacy. It does not establish a valid argument.

Look up "Dr. Greg Jenkins interviews Dr. Judy Wood" on Google Video for an interview with her, see how credible you think she is. A PhD does not mean the person holding it is mentally stable, or, more importantly, that you should listen to them if they simply don't make even cursory sense.

"This is a media smear against the actress. It will be interesting how she responds."

Her attorney has responded, saying it was "out of context". He declined to provide that context.

You cannot smear someone with an accurate, representative quotation of their own words. She said she "tends to believe" in a conspiracy theory whereby the WTC was deliberately destroyed as a cost-cutting measure for real estate developers. By her own words, she believes a goofy conspiracy theory about 9/11. That's what I've seen widely reported, and what people are mocking her for. Correctly.

That doesn't mean she's a bad actress, but come on. She smeared herself.

Did someone here even bother to read the interview ? of course 3 sentences out of the context are misleading. She was just saying she don't trust what people are telling us, and What if .. giving example of what is maybe not completely true. She don't even say she thinks so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7SwOT29gbc

Why did WTC 7 fall down then and why was it reported before it happenened?

Anybody who still thinks this conspiracy is only a theory is living in the dream world. Two towers did not topple but were blown into pieces; no, to be more accurate, the towers were blown into particles. These past 7 years, the mainstream media avoided replaying or showing the pulverization of the twin towers and the vertical implosion of WTC 7 at all cost. As far as the moon landing, I think there might be moon landing taken place, but the many pictures I came across are fake. The moon soil had foot prints all over; yet there was no blast crater, and zero sign of disturbance underneath the rocket. It's time for persons with courage such as Marion Cotillard, or Charles Sheen, or Rosie O'Donnell to come out and say the government is full of it.

Do everybody a favor, don't believe everything you read in the newspaper or see on TV ... And please, let it go with these anti-American theories. Do you have any idea how many Europeans actually love your country and take your defense on a daily basis ? Plus, I don't think all Americans have a very fair opinion on Europe. Correct me if I'm wrong. So, let the press do their job, and report whatever they think will be read. This is getting way out of proportion !!!

Nothing wrong with having a personal point of view, that is why she is an actress, an artist. Except when you chalk 3,000 deaths up to what was so eloquently described as "money-suckers" too lazy to destroy a building. Conspiracy theories abound and I've no problem with any of them. Free speech, truth or not. But when America wants to "re-wire" a system, we blow it out AFTER we evacuate the workers and WITHOUT the use of planes, federal airspace, and a confession from a wealthy intelligent Saudi.

Aaron claims:

"She's gullible and prone to forming and repeating unfounded opinions."

These are not unfounded opinions. Not only is there a worldwide movement of scholars seeking to generate a more informed debate on this matter, there are also two lawsuits brought on behalf of the USA (by Dr Judy Wood and Dr Morgan Reynolds) that will test the truthfulness of the 'official' explanation for the destruction of the twin towers.

This is a media smear against the actress. It will be interesting how she responds. I suspect this will end up being an own goal by the media as it will raise issues in the mass media that ordinary folk cannot.

Can any of you people actually say you are a structural engineer. well i am, all i can say is this, when analysing the collapse of the twin towers, i can definitely say it was not fabricated. i will not go into details as it bore many people. and to her comment about a building that can burn for 24 hours, please can somebody tell me what material they use, so i can use for all the buildings that i design. to many people like marion cotillard just expressing their opinions and thats what it just is, and opinion.

I admire her because of her critical thinking. She's smart. Go to the actual interview before judging.. don't let the American media fool you...it didn't fool her!

As an American resident in France and Spain, I hear these sort of (9/11) conspiracy theories all the time.
Yes they are ridiculous but, despite what we might think, they are not motivated by anti-Americanism. We are all capable of viewing foreign nations in sometimes a very bizarre way. Just ask our fellow Americans what they think of French, English or even Chinese history and even the present day, and you will hear from startlingly bizarre tales!
That makes us a bit naive but I wouldn't exactly burn a good actress at the stake for holding flimsy views of recent history.
A bad actress is another matter...

Take it easy people. Holocaust deniers claim it didn't happen. The WTC was blown up by Bush. She didn't say it wasn't blown up.

9/11 was a total inside job, all she's doing is adding to the list. Willie Nelson came out last week. Andreas Von Bulow, former German minister of Research and Tech came out saying inside job. Italian presidents, Japanese congressional hearings. US intelligence officials. WAKE UP! It was an inside job.

"Nowhere in that interview does she express any anti-American sentiments, her own conspiracy theories, or any disrespect to the victims."

Read the AFP version of this story, from an actual French newspaper: They explicitly quote her as saying that she personally tends to believe the conspiracy theory. If there's additional "context" here, her attorney would be doing her a service to provide it.

He won't, because there isn't any. Still, in her defense, this DOES NOT mean she's anti-American, it just means she's gullible and prone to forming and repeating unfounded opinions.

That, of course, is usually sufficient for someone to get themselves into this kind of hot water.

Nowhere in that interview does she express any anti-American sentiments, her own conspiracy theories, or any disrespect to the victims.

Tom, you should be ashamed of yourself, eating into this tripe. And why don't you patrol your forums every once in a while, where people are going NUTS with this. Don't feed the fire -- get the facts. And the facts say that The London Daily Mail is a notoriously anti-French tabloid that twisted her words into something awful.

If you want to condemn someone, Tom, condemn Peter Allen for sparking this fire. This is a disgusting story, which has been addressed by Cotillard's publicist, and makes me think so low of the media. They will stop at NOTHING to sell a paper.

I thought you were above all this.

Everyone knows Dick Cheney did it.

She might join the club with Tom Cruise.

ugetserved, your comment should be directed to Goodbye_Marion, who wrote about having viewed the documentary that you allude to. I have been reading some information, and I support your position. So kindly, refrain from attaching yourself to MY rear. :)

Tom O'Neil is being disingenuous when he calls Ms. Cotillard's belief that 9-11 was an inside job "bizarre". There are hundreds and hundreds of architects, engineers, physicists, military officers, CIA officers, pilots, survivors, and family members that believe it is an inside job. Check outhttp://www.patriotsquestion911.com for a partial list. Mr. O'Neil seems like he is part of the bought and paid for MainStreamMedia. Of course the intelligence agencies did it.

Elyse, does checking out one corporate cable "History" STORY, make you an expert either. Maybe you should hear the non official version, and see what the "Truthers" are hearing before they get so excited about sharing what the've found out. One does not need a large imagination. The FACT is The FBI were operating in the group that Bombed the WTC the first time. Without their help and complacency with the group the actioon would not have happened. Their star witness in the conviction kept a record of all dealings and it is evidence in that case. Now after you find out thats true, go try to tell someone you want to about it. Then repost some after walking in someone else's haunted shoes

LOL! We Americans are a fanatical lot! "
"Let's strip her of her Oscar because she said something that I don't agree with." Wow. That's brilliant. I guess it is the same logic here to get all riled up about something taken out of context from a year old interview as it is to get all riled up and try to impeach a president who got his dick sucked. But!! We sit on our ass and suck our thumbs like sheople while our current administration blatantly lies to us over and over and over again. Patriotic indeed!
Perhaps what we need here in America is to allow more Europeans to immigrate here -- it might off set all the sheep running around.

Anyone with half a brain knows the government version of events is flawed.

I am a French/American and appalled to read the comments of Melle Cotillard. Again another bigotted French who join the queue of anti-Americans who despise American but who still beneficiate from them. Mr. Dahan as a Jew you should make your leading lady apologise to the thousands of people who perished on the 9/11 but also to the desperate families that they left behind. It is no different than people who denies the Holocaust. If no apology from this dimwit actress please make her return the Oscar. She does not deserve it. Remember Oscar is American.

qui bono?
A sorry state of events if one is blacklisted for an allegation that many more people accept. F*ck being politically correct, walking on eggshells will ruin countries.

"Like so many people, she simply accepts these stupid conspiracy theories out of anti-American animus. Kicking the US is pretty much national pastime in Europe."

I wouldn't call it anti-American animus... THEY F-KING HATE OUR GOVERNMENT not the people.... How else do you explain the approval ratings of our dumbshit pres and our worthless, spineless congress?

RIP America.. we had a good run... but our country has been sold to the highest bidder.

First people think about it and watch very well the evidence before we start a hauting of witches like stupid people (it’s not the XVI century, please). I saw the interview very well and I confirm that she never said those things. She said explicit:
“I love watch documentaries about a lot of theories of 9/11” “I don’t believe in all” in a interview. She never said that “conspiracy theory” she gave a point of view with no a final conclusion and after that she asked a Pakistani man “Did you think the man walk the moon?” in a television program with a interesting topics. And she has the right of defense or apologizes or now we crucifice any people who hasn’t think like us. Well start with me
It’s like the Will Smith’s interview like he pretends to say: “Hitler was a good man”, and now we know the truth. I’m Mexican and now I confirm my theory that in the U.S. the free expression is very relative and the tolerance is rigid and limited. Many people in the U.S. has blind patriotism and that’s no just to any part and society around the world.
Finally if the Academy start with a statement of revoke the Oscar we start:
*Ernest Borgnire: The most pathetic and homophobic person in Hollywood.
*Julie Christie and her comment about Guantanamo Bay
*Vanessa Redgrave and her comment about the OLP and the fascists sionhists.
*Sean Penn and his homophobic issues and his visit in Venezuela with Hugo Chavez
*Mel Gibson and his antisemithic issues.
*Susan Sarandon and her ultraliberal position about the abortion
*Tim Robbins and his political position about the Bush administration.
*Ben Affleck with the criticism to bush administration
Or punishment to other celebrities like Jake Gyllenhaal, Cameron Diaz, Maggie Gyllenhaal (she says worse comments about 9/11 if I remember), James Brolin and others.
P.D.: People don’t be stupid. We’ll be real Americans and proclaims the justice and free expression

"Marion Cotillard, the brightest talent and the most engaging of the "new generation" of film artists, is now to be Swiftboated for something she said ONE YEAR AGO?"

It doesn't matter when you say it, if you espouse the "fire couldn't bring down the building" conspiracy theories, you're a complete tool.

The real irony is that the Spanish building she cites, the Windsor Tower, did, in fact, have to be demolished because the steel supports buckled during the fire, just as happened inside the WTC.

More importantly, however, she seems to be unaware that we've devised ways to destroy unwanted buildings without crashing planes full of people into them.

Cotillard disgusts me and we'll never watch another film of hers, ever. And yes, we did read a French transcript of the interview so we know exactly what she said.
Stupid, worthless cow.

Her comments are a slap in the face to the victims of 9/11, including our heroic firefighters, the people fatally trapped in the WTC and the passengers on the hijacked planes.

Tom, it's very disappointing to see this on The Envelope -- do you realize that your source, the Daily Mail, is a tabloid? Did you watch the actual interview and not the misquoted translation? Very unfair.

This has been explained.

Her quotations were taken out of context and were twisted by Peter Allen to make controversy where there is none.

Why the HELL would you report on this? A real low blow.

If we start to revoke the Oscar, why not start with:

+Julie Christie about Guantanamo Bay
+Mel Gibson and his antisemithic comments
+Vanessa Redgrave and her politic issues about the sionhism
+Sean Penn and his homophobic issues or your relationship with Hugo Chavez
+Susan Sarandon and her possition about the abortion
+jack Nicholson and his apathy about Ledger's death
+Ernest Borgnire and his homophobia

Please but this is stupid and ridiculous, I watch the complete interview and this is a bad traslation. she gaves a point of view with respect and kindness. I'm mexican and I think there're more worst things only in LA, including the steriothypes around the hispanic people, violence and sacrifice around the war and the fall people who suffering bad conditions and discrimination.

1) Marion deserves the Oscar, doesn't matter the politic position or private life
2) She have the right of defense or apologizes
3) it's not a question of patriotism or American politics, it's around a opinion of a global event. i'm sorry, but I think in some points like Cotillard.
4) It's right, maybe it's imprudent, but this interview is from one year ago, Why now? Because she won the Oscar? Like Johnny Depp's german interview or Will Smith's statement about Hitler. People think it and has a reason point of view

Hey Marion, they say the world is round. What do you think?

RE: Ernest Borgnine

I meant having homophobic sentiments...

"I say revoke her Oscar and make a statement." So should Ernest Borgnine's Oscar be revoked for speaking out against BBM and homophobic sentiments? Besides, how can it be known that those sources that cite her are credible, or that she wasn't mistranslated? Wow, people who get so worked up like so misrepresent the American populace as raging, dogmatic imbeciles. Ugh.

All 9-11 conspiracy theorists are mind-numb idiots, spewing destructive and worthless rhetoric just so like-minded idiots may possibly listen to them. 9-11 was perpetrated by a bunch of Muslims trying to kill as many Jewish people as possible.

Marion, since you are an expert on fires and building structures, I have a question for you: were those buildings that 'burnt for hours' filled with superheated, boiling jet fuel? I must inform you that concrete and steel can only handle so much heat. The designers of the building have admitted that their design could not stand up to the impact of 747s filled to the max with jet fuel. They were only designed to take a hit from 737s. New buildings, including the new building #7, are constructed with steel encased in concrete… a much stronger and fire resistant design than exposed steel with fire retardant applied to the surface (the same fire retardant that was blown away by the blast of the planes hitting the towers.)

Want to know why building 7 collapsed? Have you considered it could have been party from the fire, and partly from the weight of one of the tallest buildings in the world falling on top of it? If you ever watched the History Channel (Seconds from Disaster), you would know that in the past, buildings that have collapsed because someone put an air conditioner on the roof that was too big... building #7 was not designed to handle 100 stories of concrete and steel falling on the roof.

9-11 has cost New York, and America many, many billions of dollars…even trillions if you consider all the ripple effects. I highly doubt the bill from rewiring of the iconic WTC would have come even close to the lost funds from the deplorable destruction of the WTC sight by the cowardly terrorists.

The next time you try to make a theory, try watching the Discovery channel first. Since you think you are such an expert, I have got a tip for you... experts deal with facts, not the misguided views of a handful of idiotic conspiracy theorists.

We should not give continued media leverage to actresses who have nothing better to do than to use the media to pour salt in 7-year-old wounds of New York and America. I hope to never watch one of your movies again, and I urge all patriotic Americans to avoid all cinemas involving Marion Cotillard.

the LA Times is sourcing stories from Dredge?

DO YA THINK MAYBE THE CON ED SUB STATION HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH7 WTC

It is my impression that these views are more widely believed outside the US though only by a certain sect here. I would also venture to guess that those in the entertainment industry are more inclined to these viewpoints, so you have another plus there.

I don't agree with Cotillard on either of these issues, but, at the same time, I don't find them so outrageous. Matt Drudge is a little deranged himself and I'm surprised at the reluctance by the press to pick up on THAT story.

Marion Cotillard, the brightest talent and the most engaging of the "new generation" of film artists, is now to be Swiftboated for something she said ONE YEAR AGO? In any case, she said, "I don't believe all they're telling me, that's for sure," and "I think we've been lied to about some things." That puts her right in the middle of the 2008 election, when people are early voting in the thousands because 1) we don't believe all we're being told, and 2) we believe we've been lied to on important matters. I'm an American and I'm right with her on these points. Please -- bring your facts up to date. Has anyone asked her what she thinks now? She's given hundreds of interviews in the States without one mention of politics. This is stupid.

So because you won an Academy Award you are now a confirmed expert on world affairs? What a shame that 343 firefighters were not in on the "demolition" by terrorist attack plan hatched by the owners of the twin towers. The kid is out there, thank you Hollywood for informing the public about this nut case. Never forget, 343 FDNY.

I was happy when she won the Academy Award for her performance, but I was unaware of her comments on 9/11. What a disgusting human being it must take to think such horrible thoughts. This is just like Holocaust denial. I say revoke her Oscar and make a statement.

9/11 was an inside job moron

Man, you should lay off her. The only people not saying the gov't did it are the press and the politicians.

Is it necessary to post this? I know it is a slow time for news stories, but this is kind of an idiotic thing to post. And how you spin her acceptance speech into the story is cute, I might say. But, if you're going to post this, why not post what Julie Christie had to say about Guantanamo Bay?

Everybody, almost, knows that the US government lied about 911, just as it lied a zillion times before. A huge minority in the US believe elements in the US + Mossad + other "Intel" agencies did it. So, it's not weird kooks who believe that. Physicists, structural engineers, and a whole lot of people think the thing was orchestrated by the US.

I'm not sure about the moon landing, but she's definitely right about 9/11. Obvious inside job- Ever ask yourself what happened to WTC 7?

Tell her to go home -- no need to film in tne US anymore -- her pictures will not be viewed by Americans -- this is disgusting.

Well FDR did taunt the Japanese and Gulf Tonkin never happened and Hearst made a huge deal out of the USS Maine and so on..

Like so many people, she simply accepts these stupid conspiracy theories out of anti-American animus. Kicking the US is pretty much national pastime in Europe.

Lost in translation much? The English versions of this story are taking what she said and bending her words to make her sound crazy. Its really sad how the media takes advantage of people by making things look worse than the truth. And its also sad how the American people will be so quick to destroy her, even if she is an amazing actress. I feel like this is being blow way out of proportion. All she was saying was that you cannot always believe what the government tells you. The video (which can be found on youtube) shows that the environment of the interview was really relaxed and not really official. I just think that she was stating a possibility... a sort of example of what could have happened, not something she believes in 100%. I truly hope she speaks out about this soon before people are mislead. Also, I think the last comment made in this article is kind of ridiculous. She was being cute. Being in the city named Los Angeles, the city of angels, why not make a joke about how her winning is a sort of miracle? And since when has believing in angels been fantastic?