Jamie Lee Curtis broke down in tears while sharing her thoughts on the tragic assassination of MAGA political activist Charlie Kirk.
Kirk, who was also the co-founder of the conservative organization Turning Point USA, was fatally struck in the neck by an assassin’s bullet on Sept. 10 during an event at Utah Valley University, hosted by his nonprofit political organization. Investigators have since arrested Tyler Robinson for the murder.
Curtis brought up Kirk’s death during a recent episode of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, which appeared to be taped on Saturday, two days after the deadly shooting.
“I’m going to bring something up with you just because it’s front of mind,” the Oscar winner said before mistakenly calling Kirk “Charlie Crist,” which she attributed the error to Kirk’s “deep, deep belief” in his faith.
Curtis continued through tears, “I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say, but I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died, that he felt connected with his faith. Even though his ideas were abhorrent to me. I still believe he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith. And I hope whatever connection to God means that he felt it.”
“Yesterday was 9/11. I know there is video of his assassination. I know people who’ve seen it,” the Freakier Friday star added. “Yesterday [on 9/11], we watched again these images of those buildings coming down. … Today, we as a society are bombarded with imagery. So we don’t know what the longitudinal effects of seeing those towers come down over and over and over and over again, or watching his execution over and over and over again. … I don’t ever want to see this footage of this man being shot.”
Curtis noted that “we don’t know enough psychologically” about what seeing these violent images repeatedly does to people. She also raised the question, “Is that the reason why we’re all feeling this lack of humanity, because we’re just saturated with these images?”
Following Kirk’s death, Hollywood notables and political figures from both sides of the aisle took to social media to pay tribute to the conservative activist, but also to condemn the violence.
