Jamie Lee Curtis was left in tears whereas discussing “man of religion” Charlie Kirk within the wake of his assassination and was noticeably moved by his deep “connection to God” — however the actress combined up his final identify.
“I’m going to convey one thing up with you simply because it’s entrance of thoughts. Charlie Crist was killed two days in the past,” Curtis, 66, stated on Marc Maron’s “WTF” podcast on Monday.
The comic corrected her that it’s “Kirk, not Crist,” to which the “Halloween” star replied, “I simply name him Crist, I feel, due to Christ, due to his deep perception.”
Acknowledging that she had nothing politically in frequent with Kirk and “disagreed with him on virtually each level,” Curtis was combating again tears when she spoke of his spirituality.
“I consider he was a person of religion, and I hope in that second when he died that he felt related to his religion,” the “Freaky Friday” actress stated.
“Although I discover what his concepts had been abhorrent to me, I nonetheless consider he’s a father and a husband and a person of religion, and I hope no matter ‘connection to God’ means, that he felt it.”
Curtis famous that society is continually “bombarded” with imagery, making it unclear what the long-term influence may be of repeatedly watching traumatic occasions — together with movies of the 9/11 terrorist assaults or the footage of Charlie Kirk’s “execution” being seen “over and again and again.”
“That form of—I don’t ever need to see this footage of this man being shot,” she stated whereas choking up.
The “Every little thing All over the place All at As soon as” actress added that she is “related” with an American tragedy witnessed by many on tv, since she was born 5 years to the day of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
“I’m related to this terrible day of somebody being assassinated on tv,” she stated.
“We’re numb to them, however they’re in there. We don’t know, we don’t know sufficient psychologically about what that does. What does that do? Is that the case why we’re all feeling this lack of humanity—as a result of we’re simply saturated with these pictures?”
Kirk, 31, was shot and killed on Sept. 10 whereas talking at Utah Valley College as a part of his “American Comeback Tour,” launching a multi-day manhunt that ended with the arrest of alleged murderer Tyler Robinson on Friday.
Turning Level USA — the conservative nonprofit group based by Kirk in 2012 — paid tribute to the daddy of three as somebody who deeply beloved Christ, noting that “above all, he wished to be remembered for his religion.”
President Trump was the primary to publicly announce Kirk’s loss of life and in addition stated he would posthumously award his shut ally the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the nation’s highest honor.
Robinson, a 22-year-old from St. George, Utah, has since refused to cooperate with the FBI because it investigates Kirk’s homicide following his arrest.
