Oscar-winning actress faces 9/11 backlash

PARIS: Oscar-winning actress Marion Cotillard is facing criticism after footage of her apparently questioning the 9/11 attacks surfaced on the internet.

In an interview she reportedly gave a year ago, the star is shown commenting on the events of 11 September 2001. “I think we’re lied to about a number of things,” the Paris-born 32-year-old is seen saying in French.

Cotillard’s best actress Oscar was one of several awards she won for playing singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. In the interview, given to French TV show Paris Premiere, Cotillard appears to suggest the attacks on the World Trade Centre were staged to avoid the expense of refurbishing them.

“We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned?” she asks. “There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours.