It's really pathetically sad at how we are reminded so often just how disconnected from reality today's leading pop culture icons are from, uh, reality.
We LOVED Marion Cotillard in BIG FISH (Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney) we liked her in last years' A GOOD YEAR (Russell Crowe), and the Lovely Bride cheered her on Oscar night...
Well that's sure changed now.
"I think we're lied to about a number of things," Cotillard said, singling out the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center as an example of the US making up horror stories for political ends.
Referring to the two passenger jets being flown into the Twin Towers, Cotillard said:
"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She added that the towers, planned in the early Sixties, were an outdated "money-sucker" that would have cost more to modernise than to rebuild altogether, which is why they were destroyed.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."
Thusly... no more Cotillard in mi casa...