Best Actress Denies 9/11

Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard revealed herself to be a conspiracy theory-spouting wing-nut in an interview from 2007 that was rebroadcast over the weekend. The interview was largely ignored when it first came out, but now that she's winning awards people are very interested in the fact that she thinks the collapse of the World Trade Center was orchestrated in order to save the owners the expense of modernizing the buildings, as well as to make some sort of political point? It's hard to really tell what she's thinking, as her tinfoil hat clearly needs reshaping in order to receive a clearer signal from her home planet, Deludatron. From yesterday's Daily Mail:

 

"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She added that the towers, planned in the early Sixties, were an outdated "money-sucker" that would have cost more to modernise than to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.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."

WTF, is she an engineer, too? Call me crazy, but normally when a building is outdated the owners evacuate it and hire a wrecking crew, they don't spend four years training hijackers to fly jumbo jets into it.

*BOOM* That's the sound of your career imploding, Marion! It was going to be too expensive to rewire your brain!

Another charming quote:

 

"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."

I don't know how someone can reach the age of 32 and still believe crap like this, but I love some of the responses on the Daily Mail page. My favorite:

 

We here in America, who experienced 9-11 first-hand, are all refreshed and challenged by her unique point of view. I am already visualizing the duct tape over her mouth. What a complete idiot.

- Ava, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA