Jamie Lee Curtis grew emotional on the “WTF With Marc Maron” podcast Monday, saying Charlie Kirk’s assassination left her shaken and reflects a broader “lack of humanity” in society.
“I’m going to bring something up with you just because it’s front of mind,” Curtis said. “Charlie Crist was killed two days ago.”
After Maron corrected her and mentioned his last name was Kirk, she replied, “Sorry, Kirk. I just call him Crist, I think, because of Christ, because of his deep belief.”
“I mean, I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say,” said Curtis, who began to cry. “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, who taped the episode two days after Kirk’s assassination and just a day after the 24th anniversary of 9/11, said graphic footage like Kirk’s killing or the Twin Towers’ collapsing leaves a lasting impact.
“We as a society are bombarded with imagery, so we don’t know what the longitudinal effects of seeing those towers coming down over and over and over and over again. Or watching his execution over and over and over again,” she said. “But here we have now these images, 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? I don’t ever want to see this footage of this man being shot. Is that the reason why we’re all feeling this lack of humanity? Because we are just saturated with these images.”
“I didn’t watch [the video of Kirk’s assassination],” Maron said. “I think it diminishes the depth of humanity.”
Actress and film producer Jamie Lee Curtis breaks down in tears over the death of Charlie Kirk.
“I mean, 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 to… pic.twitter.com/Bhv2UZrMhU
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