Spike Lee once again lives up to his candid reputation. The controversial filmmaker launches bomb statements on 9/11 conspiracy theories while on the runway promoting his new HBO documentary series, “New York Epicenters: 9 / 11-2021½.”
The director of “Do the Thing Thing” has admitted that he does not buy “official explanations” for the terrorist attacks that devastated the world on September 11, 2001, while speaking to the New York Times on Monday.
In addition to the usual talking heads – Mayor Bill de Blasio, representing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Chuck Schumer, front-line workers – the new four-part docu series of the Oscar-winning filmmaker also features theorists of the conspiracy perpetuates the notorious notion that aircraft fuel cannot melt metal beams.
Lee said he’s fine with that: “I mean, I have questions, and I hope maybe the legacy of this documentary is that Congress is holding a hearing, a hearing in Congress on 9/11.”
The incendiary comments began when Times journalist Reggie Ugwu called Lee for including several members of the Architects & Engineers conspiracy group for the 9/11 truth, as its members have infamously suggested that government officials were involved in some way in the collapse of the World Trade Center.
“The amount of heat needed to make the steel melt doesn’t reach that temperature,” Lee said. “And then the juxtaposition of the way building 7 fell to the ground: when you place it next to other collapses of buildings that were demolitions, it’s like you look the same.”
He continued, “But people will decide. My focus is to put the information into the film and let people decide for themselves. I respect the intelligence of the audience.”
Ugwu also confronted Lee over why he encourages the public to question the official 9/11 findings, but chooses not to promote conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines or vote fraud during elections. of 2020.
Lee was characteristically blunt in his refusal to excuse any perceived hypocrisy in his public stances.
“People will think what they think, regardless. I don’t dance around your question. People will think what they think, “he said.” People have called me racist for ‘Doing the Right Thing.’ “People told” Mo “Better Blues” that she was anti-Semitic. “She must have it. She was misogynistic. People will only think what she thinks. And you know what? I’m still here, making four decades of film.
Lee has not responded to The Post’s request for comment on his new project.