India, Sept. 16 -- Hollywood actor Jamie Lee Curtis broke down in tears while talking about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The influential activist was shot and killed at Utah Valley University.

The Freakier Friday actor began crying in the middle of her interview while speaking with Marc Maron on his WTF podcast on Monday.

"I'm going to bring something up with you just because it's front of mind," Curtis said before mistakenly naming Kirk as "Charlie Crist", which Curtis said was a slip-of-the-tongue due to Kirk's "deep, deep belief" in religion.

The actor was then seen fighting back tears while talking about Kirk's assassination. She said, "I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say, but...