Hollywood divided over Cotillard
04 March 2008 16:54 - (SA)
Los Angeles - Hollywood insiders are scratching their heads over comments by French Oscar winner Marion Cotillard, with some asking whether her questioning of the events of September 11 will damage her international career.
"I think we're lied to about a lot of things," Cotillard said during a television program first broadcast last year which has resurfaced on the internet.
The actress who picked up the award for playing Edith Piaf in the French film La Vie En Rose cited the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001 as one example, adding: "I tend to believe in the conspiracy theory."
In the video, the 32-year-old Parisian talks about watching films on the internet challenging the official version of the September 11 attacks, saying "its fascinating, even addictive."
She continues: "Did man really walk on the moon? Me, I've seen a fair few documentaries on the subject. That, really, I question. In any case I don't believe everything people tell me, that's for sure."
Cotillard's lawyer Vincent Toledano told AFP she had "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 comments reverberated in Hollywood.
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