{"id":310844,"date":"2025-12-11T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310844\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:29:08","slug":"amanda-seyfried-says-she-will-not-apologise-for-calling-charlie-kirk-hateful-after-his-shooting-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/310844\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Seyfried says she will not apologise for calling Charlie Kirk \u2018hateful\u2019 after his shooting | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Housemaid star Amanda Seyfried has said she is \u201cnot fucking apologising\u201d for describing Charlie Kirk as \u201chateful\u201d after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/charlie-kirk-shooting\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the latter was shot dead<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whowhatwear.com\/fashion\/cover-features\/amanda-seyfried\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seyfried was speaking to Who What Wear<\/a> when she was asked about her social media activity, including the backlash around her Kirk comment. \u201cI\u2019m not fucking apologising for that. I mean, for fuck\u2019s sake, I commented on one thing. I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes. What I said was pretty damn factual, and I\u2019m free to have an opinion, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/larryfitzmaurice\/amanda-seyfried-defends-charlie-kirk-criticism\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seyfried\u2019s original comment, \u201cHe was hateful\u201d<\/a>, was posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DOjoDNdCZ6S\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in response to an Instagram Reel<\/a> which compiled a set of Kirk\u2019s most controversial quotes, and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysoapdish.com\/amanda-seyfried-blasted-for-saying-hateful-charlie-kirk-invited-his-own-assassination-fire-her\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sparked much criticism<\/a>. She subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOtN_cJjQyF\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted a separate statement on Instagram<\/a> on 17 September saying: \u201cI can get angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very much agree that Charlie Kirk\u2019s murder was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable. No one should have to experience this level of violence. This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In her Who What Wear interview, Seyfried said she appreciated being able to use social media, adding: \u201cThank God for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/instagram\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and recontextualised \u2013 which is what people do, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Housemaid star Amanda Seyfried has said she is \u201cnot fucking apologising\u201d for describing Charlie Kirk as \u201chateful\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-310844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}