Marion Cotillard: '9/11 remarks were stupid'

Marion Cotillard has admitted that questioning the official explanation for the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a TV interview was "really stupid".
Just after winning a 'Best Actress' Oscar for her performance as Édith Piaf in La Vie En Rose in 2007, an old TV appearance surfaced wherein the French star expressed doubt as to whether planes brought down the two World Trade Centre towers.
"There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours... It never collapsed," she told a French TV host. "None of these towers collapsed. And there [in New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed."
Cotillard would later defend her remarks, charging that the media had taken her words "out of context".
The Independent's New Review now quotes the actress as saying that she should have never commented about the terror attacks in public.
"I know how the media work," Cotillard said. "I have to be honest: it was really stupid for me to talk about something that serious in a TV show at one in the morning."
She continued: "We were talking about something totally different and I gave an example of what I had seen. And it was not very smart. But still, what was written out of it was very different from what I said."
Cotillard further explained that, despite her regret over discussing the issue on TV, she still believes her remarks were not properly represented by the media.
"I didn't say that [the attacks were fake]," the star asserted. "The first reason is that I know people who have lost members of families or friends that were in those planes. So how could I believe in the conspiracy theory? It's nonsense."
Last month, it was reported that Cotillard might join director Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.