Amanda Seyfried isn’t backing down on her Charlie Kirk feedback.
“The Housemaid” actor opened up about earlier remarks she’d made concerning the right-wing commentator’s views after his dying, calling him “hateful.”
Kirk was shot and killed throughout a talking occasion at Utah Valley College on Sept. 10.
“I’m not fucking apologizing for that. I mean, for fuck’s sake, I commented on one thing,” the actor mentioned in an article printed in Who What Put on on Wednesday. “I said something that was based on actual reality and actual footage and actual quotes.”
“What I said was pretty damn factual, and I’m free to have an opinion, of course,” the actor added. “Thank God for Instagram. I was able to give some clarity, and it was about getting my voice back because I felt like it had been stolen and recontextualized — which is what people do, of course.”
After calling Kirk “hateful” simply after his dying, Seyfried shortly addressed the backlash her remark created in a extra nuanced Instagram publish.
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“We are forgetting the nuance of humanity,” the actor wrote in September. “I can get angry about misogyny and racist rhetoric and ALSO very much agree that Charlie Kirk’s murder was absolutely disturbing and deplorable in every way imaginable. No one should have to experience this level of violence.”
“This country is grieving too many senseless and violent deaths and shootings. Can we agree on that at least?” she added.
Different celebrities, together with Kristin Chenoweth and Rainn Wilson, additionally obtained blowback for feedback they made about Kirk’s dying.
Chenoweth ― who referred to as Kirk’s dying “a heartbreak” ― mentioned that the backlash to her remarks “nearly broke” her.
“It was tough on me, but I’m not going to answer any questions about it because I dealt with it,” the Broadway legend mentioned in a brand new interview with The Hollywood Reporter in November.
“It nearly broke me, and that’s all I’m going to say,” she defined. “You probably know my heart, so you probably know.”
