Jamie Lee Curtis is receiving each reward and backlash for her feedback about Charlie Kirk.
The actress, who is thought for publicly discussing her liberal views, acquired emotional whereas speaking in regards to the conservative activist’s loss of life on the Monday, September 15, episode of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. “Charlie Crist was killed two days in the past. I’m sorry. Kirk. I simply name him Crist, I feel, due to Christ, due to his deep, deep perception,” she acknowledged. “I imply, I disagreed with him on nearly each level I ever heard him say, however I imagine he was a person of religion.”
She added, “I hope in that second when he died that he felt related to his religion, though I discover what — his concepts had been abhorrent to me. I nonetheless imagine he’s a father and a husband and a person of religion, and I hope no matter connection to God implies that he felt it.”
Curtis went on to specific concern over how social media and modern-day expertise have allowed footage of tragedies to develop into extra accessible. “We didn’t have DVDs. We didn’t have VHS. They didn’t put them on TV,” she mentioned. Utilizing footage of the 9/11 assaults for instance, Curtis added, “Immediately, we as a society are bombarded with imagery, so we don’t know what the longitudinal results of seeing these towers come down again and again and over and over, or watching his execution over and over and over.”
“I don’t ever wish to see this footage of this man being shot,” Curtis acknowledged, to which Maron replied, “I didn’t watch it. I feel it diminishes the depth of humanity.”
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Curtis wrapped up the dialogue by questioning, “If that’s the case, then is that the explanation why we’re all feeling this lack of humanity? As a result of we’re simply saturated with this picture. These photographs.”
Many social media customers praised Curtis for displaying sympathy over Kirk’s loss of life regardless of their political variations. “WOW. I definitely DID NOT anticipate that from Jamie Lee Curtis. That is how adults ought to behave,” one X consumer mentioned of her feedback, whereas one other added, “Right here is somebody who completely will get it. Class act, Jamie.”
“Thanks Jamie for having a conscience and being a human being. Not many others with these qualities nowadays it appears,” one other X consumer wrote. Another person shared, “I respect that she feels sympathy though she disagreed with him.”
Others was stunned by the Oscar’s winner’s robust response to Kirk’s loss of life, given his opposing beliefs on subjects comparable to gender id and the LGBTQ+ group. (Curtis is a widely known LGBTQ+ advocate and has supported her daughter Ruby Visitor since she publicly got here out as transgender in 2021.)
“Jamie- historical past is FULL of males who did horrible issues within the title of their ‘religion,’” one particular person wrote by way of X. One other tweeted, “Idk, her phrases sound totally different…referring to his phrases as abhorrent as she seems like she is crying. I wish to see her face however perhaps she is honest.”
“Sure Jamie he was a husband and a father, all of the extra cause he ought to have stayed out of operating his mouth towards a free individuals,” a unique X consumer acknowledged. Another person shared, “I perceive her empathizing for his household as a mother, however how was Charlie an precise man of religion when he used faith for his private acquire (wording it delicately)? His loss of life doesn’t erase his horrible actions, and the impact they *nonetheless have on individuals like her daughter.”
Kirk — who famously cofounded the conservative nonprofit Turning Level USA — was shot and killed whereas talking at an occasion at Utah Valley College on Wednesday, September 10. Kirk’s suspected shooter, Tyler Robinson, has been arrested and will face a number of expenses.