Is Marion Cotillard’s Hollywood Career Over? March 11, 2008
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After just two weeks of basking in her slightly unexpected Best Actress Oscar glory French star Marion Cotillard faces a backlash over 9/11 comments.
In an interview given to a French television network the thirty two year old actress appeared to suggest that the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre were stage in an attempt to avoid refurbishing them.
‘We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for twenty four hours.
‘It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there (in New York), in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.’
The comments were made on a television programme in 2006 and footage for the show has, only recently, appeared on the Internet.
9/11 was the biggest tragedy in American history killing almost 3,000 people.
The actress, who won an Oscar for her role as Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, went on to question America’s greatest historical moment questioning if they really did land on the moon.
‘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.’
However in an embarrassing u-turn that actress claimed that there had been a misunderstanding as she attempted to try and keep the Hollywood film industry, which is notoriously patriotic, on her side.
Her lawyer Vincent Toledano said: ‘Marion never intended to contest nor question the attacks of September 11, 2001 and regrets the way old remarks have been taken out of context.’
While she my have backtracked she hasn’t apologised for the comments that many in Hollywood, which is divided over the remarks, see as anti-American.
Tim O’Neil, a critic for The Envelope, said: ‘This crosses the line. You can say crazy things, they all do in Hollywood all the time, but she’s a foreigner who is perceived to be saying things that are anti-American.
He also suggested that if this video had been released sooner ’she probably would have lost the Oscar.’
The effect that this will have on her international, and in particular her Hollywood, career is yet to be seen as she is due to begin shooting Public Enemies with Johnny Depp and Christian Bale next week, a contract she signed prior to this outburst.
Public Enemies, which is directed by Michael Mann, will be the biggest role, in terms of being in a large money spinning movie, for the little known actress but may be her last in Hollywood.
‘Non, je ne regrette rien’ may not be the feeling in the Marion Cotillard camp as her career, that is yet really to take but looked very promising, burns down around her.
Mila Kunis Lands Role In Max Payne March 11, 2008
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-Actress Mila Kunis is to star alongside Mark Wahlberg in a big screen version of videogame Max Payne.
It is believed that Kunis, who starred in That 70s Show, will play an assassin who works with Payne (Wahlberg) to avenge the death of her sister.
The story will revolve around Payne, who is a cop who is haunted by the death of his family, uncovers a conspiracy when trying to solve a series of murders.
Max Payne is just the most recent in a long line of videogames including Hitman, Tomb Raider, Doom and resident Evil, to get a movie adaptation.
-Die hard 4 star Justin Long has signed on to co-star in Sam Raimi’s new movie Drag Me to Hell.
The film is Raimi’s long awaited return to the movie genre of horror.
But the project has already experienced castin problems as Ellen Page dropped out of the project due to a scheduling conflict.
She was replace by Alison Lohman who will play Long’s girlfriend in a morality tale about a character who becomes the victim of a supernatural curse.
-Funnyman Jim Carrey has signed up to star in Oscar nominated director Jason Reitman’s Pierre Pierre.
Pierre Pierre is the follow up to Reitman’s critical and commercial success Juno and centres on a self indulgent French nihilist who transports a stolen painting from paris to London.
- Adam Sandler, Seth Rogan and Leslie Mann will all star in director and producer of the moment Judd Apatow’s new comedy.
The film, which is expected to begin filming later this summer, is a co-production between Sony Pictures and Universal.
Although the plot is being kept under wraps Apatow is expected to write the script, direct and produce the movie.
Both Rogan and Mann worked together and with Apatow on last summer’s hit Knocked Up and Adam Sandler co-wrote the soon to be released Don’t Mess With the Zohan.
-Troubled star, and multiple Rassie winner, Lindsay Lohan has finally landed some work alongside her heroine Ann- Margret in a new Jack Black comedy.