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jamie lee curtis Speaks out against “threatening” response to his emotional reaction Death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
am following The fatal shooting of 31-year-old Kirk on September 10, At one of his regular college campus rallies in Utah, freaky Friday star66, appeared in an episode of Marc Maron WTF podcast and tearfully addressed his death.
While Curtis made it clear during the episode that he “disagrees with it.” [Kirk] On almost every issue I heard him say, His strong reaction made headlines and generated intense online criticism.
broke his silence on the incident in a new interview with DiversityThe Oscar winner insisted his comments were misinterpreted.
“Part of it misinterpreted what I was saying as I was wishing them well – as if I was talking about them in a very positive way, which I wasn’t; I was just talking about their faith in God,” said Curtis.
“And so it was a mistranslation, which is a joke, but no,” she continued, “in today’s binary world, you can’t have two ideas at the same time: I can’t be Jewish and fully believe in Israel’s right to exist and at the same time reject the destruction of Gaza.”
“You can’t say that,” argued Curtis, “because you’re stigmatized for having a mind that says, ‘I can hold both of those views. I can be contradictory that way.'”
During the original interview, Halloween The actor said that even though Kirk’s “ideas were abhorrent to me,” he still believed he was “a man of faith.”
“And I hope that at that moment when he died, he felt connected to his faith,” he reiterated, “I still believe that he is a father, a husband and a man of faith.”
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Kirk, a staunch and loyal supporter and ally of Donald Trump, was shot and killed while debating with a college student about the prevalence of mass shootings and gun violence in America.
22-year-old Tyler Robinson later surrendered himself to police for Kirk’s murder. He has been charged with aggravated murder, and prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty.
Kirk’s shocking death attracted attention from people on both sides of the political spectrum, who paid tribute, Including Hollywood celebrities Such as chris prattTV host Piers Morgan and comedian Rosie O’Donnell.
“I am praying charlie kirk Right now, for my wife and young children, for my country,” Pratt, one of the few conservative voices in Hollywood, wrote on X/Twitter. “We need the grace of God. God help us.”