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Jamie Lee Curtis sobbed on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast when she brought up Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist and Turning Point USA co-founder who was fatally shot in the neck on Sept. 10 at a Utah college. Curits and Maron recorded their podcast a few days after the assassination.
“I’m going to bring something up with you just because it’s front of mind,” Curtis said before mistakenly naming Kirk as “Charlie Crist,” which Curtis said was a slip-of-the-tongue due to Kirk’s “deep, deep belief” in religion.
Curtis then fought through tears as she discussed Kirk’s killing, saying: “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 with his faith. Even though 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.”
“Yesterday was 9/11. I know there is video of his assassination. I know people who’ve seen it,” Curtis added through tears. “Yesterday [on 9/11], we watched again these images of those buildings coming down. … 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.”
Curtis re-emphasized the circulation of videos of Kirk’s death by saying: “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.”
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Many of Hollywood’s prominent liberal figures spoke out against Kirk’s killing in the days after the assassination. Jimmy Kimmel took to Instagram in real time to post: “Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.”
“I’ve seen a lot of extraordinarily vile responses to this from both sides of the political spectrum,” Kimmel later said. “Some people are cheering this, which is something I won’t ever understand.”
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