Things Most Fans Never Knew

Ed Asner's advocacy went a little far for some people. The Hollywood Reporter criticized his position on the government's official narrative of what happened at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In a video posted to YouTube, he can be seen giving a statement to a so-called "International Citizens' Inquiry into 9/11." The text in the video gives a date of May 25, 2004, but documentation of said inquiry is not readily available online. "Could it all be accidents?" he asks at the beginning of his statement, before calling for an independent inquiry into the attacks.

But before you get all judgy-wudgy on conspiratorial Asner, just consider that he was by no means the only celeb to have questions about what went down that day that changed the world. According to The Wrap, several other actors have come out as 9/11 truthers, including Marion Cotillard, Charlie Sheen, Mark Ruffalo, and Rosie O'Donnell. Singers Willie Nelson, Matthew Bellamy, and Graham Nash have all been members of the celebrity 9/11 truthers club, as well. So who knows? Maybe Ed Asner's suggestion of a little more investigation into what happened that day isn't the worst idea (just sayin'). Whatever our disparate views of 9/11 may be, we can all agree that we are really going to miss seeing Ed Asner's smiling face in movies and TV made after his death.