Jamie Lee Curtis got emotional on Marc Maron‘s WTF podcast as she reflected on the death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
“I’m going to bring something up with you just because it’s front of mind,” Curtis told Maron on an episode that dropped Monday. “Charlie Crist was killed two days ago.” Maron quickly corrected Curtis, “Kirk, not Crist.”
“Sorry, Kirk,” Curtis continued. “I just call him Crist, I think, because of Christ, because of his deep belief.” The actress, who has long championed left-leaning causes, began to cry.
“I mean, I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say,” she continue. “But I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died that he felt connected to his faith. Even though I find what 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.”
Curtis explained that she was emotional not because of politics, but because the news feels overwhelming. “Yesterday was 9/11,” she said. “I know there is video of his assassination. I know people who’ve seen it. Yesterday, we watched again these images of those buildings coming down.”
She added, “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 … 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.”
She noted that John F. Kennedy was assassinated exactly five years from the day she was born. “I’m associated with this awful day of someone being assassinated on television,” she said. She added that this kind of imagery has an impact even if we don’t realize it.
“We are inured to them and we are numb to them, but they are in there,” Curtis said. “We don’t know enough psychologically about what that does. What does that do? Is that the case why we’re all feeling this lack of humanity — because we are just saturated with these images?”
Kirk was shot dead last week while speaking to students at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The right-wing political influencer and activist, who co-founded Turning Point USA to foster a culture of conservatism on school campuses around the nation, was 31. News of Kirk’s death generated shock throughout the U.S. political ecosystem. An alleged shooter is currently in custody, however Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said he is “not cooperating” with authorities.
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