Jamie Lee Curtis claims her emotional response to Charlie Kirk’s death was misconstrued. In September, Curtis appeared on Marc Maron‘s WTF podcast and teared up while explaining that she “disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say,” but hoped he felt “connected to his faith” when he died. In a recent interview with Variety, Curtis said her remarks were “mistranslated,” clarifying that she “was simply talking about his faith in God.”
“An excerpt of it mistranslated what I was saying as I wished him well — like I was talking about him in a very positive way, which I wasn’t,” Curtis said. “And so it was a mistranslation, which is a pun, but not. In the binary world today, you cannot hold two ideas at the same time.”
In the initial podcast interview, Curtis said, “Even though I find what 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.” Those ideas presumably included Kirk’s anti-trans stance, given that her own daughter is trans. Afterwards, Curtis began discussing 9/11, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the videos that circulated of the moment when Kirk was shot dead while speaking to students at Utah Valley University.
Curtis similarly tried to redirect her conversation with Variety towards the bigger picture, this time by mentioning Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza and the empathy she holds for both. “I cannot be Jewish and totally believe in Israel’s right to exist and at the same time reject the destruction of Gaza,” Curtis said. “You can’t say that, because you get vilified for having a mind that says, ‘I can hold both those thoughts. I can be contradictory in that way.’”
From Rolling Stone US
