Actress: 9/11 our fault

New York Daily News ^ | 5/24/05 | MAGGIE HABERMAN

[Roberts]

Actress: 9/11 our fault

By MAGGIE HABERMAN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, star of a new flick about the aftermath of 9/11, believes the United States "is responsible in some way" for the devastating terror attacks.

Gyllenhaal, 27, made the comments at the Tribeca Film Festival, where her new movie "The Great New Wonderful" - which has a plot centered on the destruction of the World Trade Center - premiered Friday.

"I think what's good about the movie is that it deals with 9/11 in such a subtle, open way that I think it allows it to be more complicated than just, 'Oh, look at these poor New Yorkers and how hard it was for them,'" Gyllenhaal told the NY1 cable channel.

"Because I think America has done reprehensible things and is responsible in some way and so I think the delicacy with which it's dealt allows that to sort of creep in," she added.

A lower East Side native, Gyllenhaal's new film focuses on a handful of New Yorkers coping with their pain about a year after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror strike.

The 27-year-old vaulted to stardom after appearing in "Secretary" as a mousy assistant.

The film festival where Gyllenhaal spoke was launched by actor Robert De Niro in 2002 as a way to help scarred lower Manhattan rebound.

[Roberts]

She is an insult to pond scum.

[OldEagle]

Interesting quotes.
Does anything else she says make such perfect sense?

[TomServo]

Runs in the family?

[Roberts]

Yep, apparently so. Family of morons.

[Doctor Raoul]

It will be my fault if I forget to pass on this movie.

[FloridianBushFan]

Yep she is. After these comments I won't be seeing the movie.

I do suggest seeing United Flight 93 for anyone who has not done so already. It really does pay tribute to the heroes of that flight and does not bring politics into the movie. When the movie was done everyone walked out in silence.

[billorites]

With a paper bag,
and a fattie cork for the mouth....

[ladyinred]

Who is this creature????? I want to be sure and boycott anything she does!

[jazusamo]

Sounds like another Barbra Streisand, must have a PhD in high school drama.

[Lurker]

The Great New Wonderful" - which has a plot centered on the destruction of the World Trade Center

Does anyone else see the dichotomy here? If I ever meet this dizzy bi*** remind me to send a great big green high velocity loogie her way.

Thanks in advance.

L

[SuziQ]

Whatta maroon. I doubt she's done anything to educate herself about the situation in the Middle East, starting from right after the founding of Islam. She might get a wider perspective on the matter.

[teletech]

Guess she figures this is the way to keep working in Hollywierd these days.

[ml/nj]

Maybe she should try to get a part in a movie that tells the 9/11 story from the perspective of the Islamic Swine? The she won't even have to act.

ML/NJ

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Maggie, baby, shut up.

psycho liberals think the US is the worst place on the planet.

[weegee]

America was responsible for the muslim conquest of Spain too.

Same holy war, different century.

[Clintonfatigued]

Guess what? It runs in the family:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1623930/posts

[adorno]

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, star of a new flick about the aftermath of 9/11, believes the United States "is responsible in some way" for the devastating terror attacks.

So many of these movie stars and celebrities try to sound so tolerant, so progressive, so incluseive, so diversity oriented, so understanding, so "know better than thou", that they actually come across as IDIOTS!



(which I don't doubt many of them are)

[kenth]

The Gyllenhaals are just useless.

[appleharvey]

If this girl is acting at being an idiot, she desrves an Oscar.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

And yet, mainstream (leftist) Hollywood cannot understand why we are staying away in droves from the crap they produce.