Charlie Kirk’s recent assassination has left actress Jamie Lee Curtis deeply distraught.
The “Freaky Friday” and “Freakier Friday” star got candid on Mark Maron’s “WTF” podcast that went live on Monday. Despite her different political beliefs, Curtis expressed her overwhelming sadness surrounding the conservative activist’s assassination.
“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,” said Jamie Lee Curtis. “Even though I find what he, 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.”
Even though I find what he, his ideas were abhorrent to me. I still believe he’s a father and a husband and a man of faith.
She also noted a sense of deja vu, comparing the constant replaying and reposting of the recent tragedy to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.
“I know there is video of his assassination. I know people who’ve seen it,” she said. “Yesterday, 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.”
Curtis alluded that the constant footage appearing on the internet of tragedies, like Kirk’s Utah Valley University death, can’t be good for humanity.
“And we are inured to them and we are numb to them, but they are in there. We don’t know enough psychologically about what that does. What does that do? That kind of — I don’t ever want to see this footage of this man being shot.”
Listen to the full podcast starring Jamie Lee Curtis here.
