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Jamie Lee Curtis has her personal response to the loss of life of Charlie Kirk.
She turned very expressive as she mentioned the capturing throughout an interview.
Throughout social media, many individuals are expressing bitter disappointment in direction of the actress who acquired heaps of reward simply final month.
Is Curtis improper? Are her critics? Each? Neither?
Jamie Lee Curtis attends the “Freakier Friday” screening on August 15, 2025. (Photograph Credit score: Emma McIntyre/Getty Photos)
Jamie Lee Curtis is heartbroken over Charlie Kirk, even when she didn’t fairly bear in mind his identify
On Monday, August 15, Jamie Lee Curtis mentioned the Charlie Kirk capturing on the WTF With Marc Maron podcast.
“I’m going to bring something up with you just because it’s front of mind,” the actress introduced.
Curtis continued: “Charlie Crist was killed two days ago.”
Jamie Lee Curtis attends the premiere of “The Lost Bus” in the course of the 2025 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition at Princess of Wales Theatre on September 05, 2025. (Photograph Credit score: Olivia Wong/Getty Photos)
First level, it’s potential that the podcast episode recorded on Friday, September 12, which might certainly have been two days after Kirk’s loss of life at Utah Valley College.
Second level, after all, is that that’s … not his identify.
“Sorry, Kirk,” Curtis apologized after the host corrected her.
“I just call him Crist, I think, because of Christ, because of his deep belief.”
Jamie Lee Curtis attends the “Freakier Friday” UK premiere at Odeon Luxe Leicester Sq. on July 31, 2025. (Photograph Credit score: Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Photos)
To be clear, she just isn’t endorsing any of his statements
“I mean, I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say,” Jamie Lee Curtis emphasised of Charlie Kirk.
She appears to be referring to the far-right podcaster’s historical past of constructing racist, homophobic, misogynistic, transphobic, and Christian nationalist statements.
“But I believe he was a man of faith,” Curtis defined.
“And I hope in that moment when he died, that he felt connected to his faith.”
Jamie Lee Curtis acquired emotional over Charlie Kirk’s tragic passing throughout an interview with Marc Maron
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“Even though I find what his ideas were abhorrent to me,” she continued.
“I still believe he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith.”
Curtis expressed: “And I hope whatever ‘connection to God’ means, that he felt it.”
Evidently one significantly upsetting element, to the actress, was that movies of the capturing proliferated throughout social media within the speedy aftermath.
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis speaks in the course of the ceremony honoring US former tennis participant and activist Billie Jean King with a Star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame on April 7, 2025. (Photograph Credit score: VALERIE MACON/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
In some methods, it’s much less concerning the man and extra concerning the cultural toll of violence
Jamie Lee Curtis lamented how “we, as a society, are bombarded with imagery” of real-world loss of life and violence, together with the capturing loss of life of Charlie Kirk.
“So, we don’t know what the longitudinal effects of seeing those Towers come down over and over and over and over again,” she reasoned. Definitely, a lot of America appeared to lose its thoughts after 9/11, and parts of our nation have but to regain their senses.
She additionally linked Kirk’s capturing to that of President John F. Kennedy.
Not as a result of she was equating them in import (a podcaster, regardless of how influential, just isn’t a well-regarded President of the USA), however as a result of the Kennedy Assassination befell on her fifth birthday.
Jamie Lee Curtis attends the “My Mom Jayne: A Film by Mariska Hargitay” Premiere in the course of the 2025 Tribeca Competition at Carnegie Corridor on June 13, 2025. (Photograph Credit score: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photos for Tribeca Competition)
“I’m associated with this awful day of someone being assassinated on television,” Curtis acknowledged, expressing a worry that our society has develop into “inured” to footage of real-world violence.
“We are numb to them, but they are in there,” she continued.
“We don’t know, we don’t know enough psychologically about what that does. What does that do?”
That’s really a particularly reasonable query.
And, nonetheless one feels about Kirk or his capturing, graphic photos of gun violence are in all probability not wholesome for our society.
2/2. Kirk and fellow extremist friends referred to as for public beheadings to develop into sporting occasions, which kids ought to watch: “At a sure age, it is an initiation.”
Full context: www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk…
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Feeling the emotion of unhappiness just isn’t an endorsement of a person
Some have been very important of Curtis for seeming to precise sympathy for Kirk, given what number of swathes of individuals he maligned throughout his life. Her personal daughter is transgender, in spite of everything.
However, on the danger of inserting slightly an excessive amount of nuance into a particularly polarizing subject, it’s really okay and regular for somebody to really feel saddened by a loss of life.
This isn’t a common feeling, even when sure aspiring thought-police trying to punish folks for not mourning correctly insist that it’s.
It’s okay for Curtis to really feel unhappy a couple of man’s violent loss of life, regardless of the standard of that man’s character in life. She is, notably, not asking anybody else to really feel the identical means.
