{"id":160697,"date":"2025-09-16T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160697\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:00:09","slug":"jamie-lee-curtis-mourns-charlie-kirk-despite-disagreeing-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/160697\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis Mourns Charlie Kirk Despite Disagreeing With Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJamie Lee Curtis<\/a> got emotional on Marc Maron<\/a>\u2018s WTF podcast as she reflected on the death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m going to bring something up with you just because it\u2019s front of mind,\u201d Curtis told Maron on an episode that dropped Monday. \u201cCharlie Crist was killed two days ago.\u201d Maron quickly corrected Curtis, \u201cKirk, not Crist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSorry, Kirk,\u201d Curtis continued. \u201cI just call him Crist, I think, because of Christ, because of his deep belief.\u201d The actress, who has long championed left-leaning causes, began to cry. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI mean, I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say,\u201d she continue. \u201cBut 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\u2019s a father and a husband and a man of faith, and I hope whatever \u2018connection to God\u2019 means, that he felt it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCurtis explained that she was emotional not because of politics, but because the news feels overwhelming. \u201cYesterday was 9\/11,\u201d she said. \u201cI know there is video of his assassination. I know people who\u2019ve seen it. Yesterday, we watched again these images of those buildings\u00a0coming down.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tShe added, \u201cToday, we as a society are bombarded with imagery. So we don\u2019t 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\u2026 We don\u2019t know enough psychologically about what that does. What does that do? That kind of\u2014I don\u2019t ever want to see this footage of this man being shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe noted that John F. Kennedy was assassinated exactly five years from the day she was born. \u201cI\u2019m associated with this awful day of someone being assassinated on television,\u201d she said. She added that this kind of imagery has an impact even if we don\u2019t realize it. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cWe are inured to them and we are numb to them, but they are in there,\u201d Curtis said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know enough psychologically about what that does. What does that do? Is that the case why we\u2019re all feeling this lack of humanity\u2014because we are just saturated with these images?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKirk was\u00a0shot dead<\/a>\u00a0last week while speaking to students at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The\u00a0right-wing<\/a>\u00a0political influencer and activist, who co-founded\u00a0Turning Point USA<\/a>\u00a0to foster a culture of conservatism on school campuses around the nation, was 31. News of Kirk\u2019s death generated shock throughout the U.S. political ecosystem.\u00a0An alleged shooter<\/a> is currently in custody, however Utah Governor Spencer Cox said he is<\/a> \u201cnot cooperating\u201d with authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Lee Curtis got emotional on Marc Maron\u2018s WTF podcast as she reflected on the death of right-wing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,49204,12,88,20055,16238],"class_list":{"0":"post-160697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-charlie-kirk","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-jamie-lee-curtis","13":"tag-marc-maron"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}