Benjamin Lindsay, Mon, September 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM PDT\u00b73 min read<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cFreakier Friday\u201d star and Oscar winner emphasizes she otherwise \u201cdisagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jamie Lee Curtis may have disagreed with the late Charlie Kirk on \u201calmost every point I ever heard him say,\u201d but that didn\u2019t stop the Oscar winner from unexpectedly breaking down in tears over his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cFreakier Friday\u201d actress and producer of \u201cThe Lost Bus\u201d began crying mid-interview while speaking with Marc Maron on his \u201cWTF\u201d podcast on Monday, expressing what appeared to be overwhelming sadness about Kirk\u2019s death \u2014 \u201cHe\u2019s a father and a husband and a man of faith\u201d \u2014 while also decrying online videos of the assassination and their ease of access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to bring something up with you just because it\u2019s front of mind,\u201d Curtis said, pivoting away from a discussion about watching her mother Janet Leigh\u2019s screen work in \u201cPsycho\u201d and other classic films. First misidentifying Kirk as \u201cCharlie Crist,\u201d a slip-of-the-tongue due to his \u201cdeep, deep belief\u201d in Christ, Curtis said through tears: \u201cI 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 I find what he, his ideas were abhorrent to me. I still believe he\u2019s a father and a husband and a man of faith. And I hope whatever connection to God means that he felt it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The interview, recorded Friday, also covered Curtis\u2019 thoughts on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. She compared the media deluge of watching the towers fall to watching Kirk get killed while speaking at Utah Valley University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI know there is video of his assassination. I know people who\u2019ve seen it,\u201d she said. \u201cYesterday, we watched again these images of those buildings coming down \u2026 Today, we as a society are bombarded with imagery. So we don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She also cited the infamous Zapruder film of President John F. Kennedy\u2019s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963 . \u201cThe Zapruder film is the only visual document that moves, that shares that horror of what happened. But here we have now these images.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAll the time, every day,\u201d Maron chimed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd we are inured to them and we are numb to them, but they are in there. We don\u2019t know enough psychologically about what that does. What does that do? That kind of \u2014 I don\u2019t ever want to see this footage of this man being shot,\u201d Curtis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kirk was fatally shot on Wednesday during the first stop of his \u201cAmerican Comeback Tour\u201d at Utah Valley University. The suspected assailant, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, has been arrested and is expected to be charged Tuesday, according to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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