Jamie Lee Curtis got surprisingly emotional while discussing last Wednesday’s murder of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk while speaking at Utah Valley University.
‘I’m going to bring something up with you just because it’s front of mind,’ the 66-year-old Oscar winner said on WTF with Marc Maron on Monday.
‘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.’
Jamie – an outspoken Democrat – began crying: ‘Even though I find what he, 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.’
The 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder was shot and killed on the first stop of his 15-date American Comeback Tour where he challenges college students to debate him.
Jamie Lee Curtis got surprisingly emotional while discussing last Wednesday’s murder of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk (pictured last Wednesday) while speaking at Utah Valley University
The 66-year-old Oscar winner said on WTF with Marc Maron on Monday: ‘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’ (pictured last Friday)
The suspected gunman – 22-year-old Tyler James Robinson – was turned over to the US Marshals Service by his own father last Friday, and he’s expected to be charged during his first court appearance this Tuesday.
Charlie – who’s survived by his wife Erika Kirk and their two children under age 3 – will be honored at a memorial service scheduled next Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ.
Curtis can relate as she has two adopted daughters – Annie Guest, 38; and Ruby Guest, 29 – from her 40-year marriage to Spinal Tap II star Christopher Guest.
The Freakier Friday producer-star worries about ‘the longitudinal effects of seeing’ footage of Kirk’s gruesome execution on social media platforms.
‘I know there is video of his assassination. I know people who’ve seen it,’ Jamie said.
‘The Zapruder film is the only visual document that moves, that shares that horror of what happened [to President John F. Kennedy in 1963]. But here we have now these images.’
Curtis continued: ‘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? That kind of — I don’t ever want to see this footage of this man being shot.’
Jamie – an outspoken Democrat – began crying: ‘Even though I find what he, 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’ (pictured September 5)
The 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder was shot and killed on the first stop of his 15-date American Comeback Tour where he challenges college students to debate him
The 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder was shot and killed on the first stop of his 15-date American Comeback Tour where he challenges college students to debate him
Charlie – who’s survived by his wife Erika Kirk and their two children under age 3 – will be honored at a memorial service scheduled next Sunday at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ
