‘praising’ Charlie Kirk
“Yesterday [on 9/11], we watched again these images of those buildings coming down. … Today, we as a society are bombarded with imagery. So we don’t 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,” she said, before returning to the videos of Kirk’s death.
Many praised Jamie Lee Curtis for her words on the murder of Charlie Kirk, foremost because she showed empathy toward a person with greatly different political views.
However, others were furious with the actress for appearing to excuse the conservative influencer’s controversial messages. One of those includes the rejection of transgender people, which hits close to home for Curtis, who has a 29-year-old transgender daughter.
Jamie Lee Curtis breaks silence amid Charlie Kirk comment backlash
Now, Jamie Lee Curtis has decided to speak out amid the backlash. In an interview with Variety, she stated that it was a mistranslation of what she said.
“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. I was simply talking about his faith in God,” Curtis explained.
“So it was a mistranslation, which is a pun, but not,” she continued. “In the binary world today, you cannot hold two ideas at the same time: I cannot be JContinue reading…
