Actress Marion Cotillard sparked a political row yesterday after accusing America of fabricating the 9/11 attacks. The 32-year-old French actress, who received an Oscar last month for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, openly questioned the truth behind the terrorist atrocity in an interview broadcast on a French website…. “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…. But after her outburst, in which she also queried the 1969 Moon landings, a successful future in Hollywood appears to be in jeopardy. She said: “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.”
Yikes…the stunning, incomprehensible ignorance behind Marion Cotillard’s comments is well…I’m can’t thinking of a word that adequately describes my feelings. What’s French for “Foot-in-mouth disease”? That a allegedly lucid, intelligent, and talented woman could seriously put forward opinions such as these simply defies explanation. It’s not that I give a damn about Cotillard’s opinion on anything, because I really don’t. What bugs me is that she seems to seriously believe the lunacy she’s spouting. The “moon landing on a sound stage in Burbank” theory is both ignorant and beneath contempt. And unless she’s a structural engineer, her opinion on the collapse of the Twin Towers defies anything resembling rational explanation. Uh…hello?? You’re an actress, NOT an engineer. How about sticking to things you actually know something about?
I can handle ignorance. I may even be able to work with stupidity if it’s too terribly egregious or aggressive. What I simply cannot stomach is rampant, unrepentant, thoroughly uninformed vacancy. This is why celebrities should stick to what they do well and leave the opinionizing to those who actually have a (&^%$#@ clue.
Yes, I will admit to being perhaps somewhat overly sensitive when it comes to 9.11 conspiracy theories. Having lost a friend in one of the Twin Towers, the various and assorted conspiracy theories strike me as just plain disrespectful of the innocent Americans murdered on that horrible day. 9.11 is not merely some sort of intellectual exercise. Some of us lost friends and loved ones, whether in the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, or on Flight 93. To have a know-nothing like Marion Cotillard disrespect those who had to buried loved ones murdered on 9.11 is both disrespectful and ignorant beyond belief.
Then again, who really give s (&^% what Marion Cotillard thinks?
