People Are Fancasting Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Son As Charlie Kirk in a Biopic

Charlie Kirk was murdered one month ago, and in that short period of time, the world has changed. Jimmy Kimmel was temporarily suspended for his comments regarding Donald Trump’s politicization of the killing. There was a seven-hour, televised memorial service featuring fireworks and speeches from Trump and Kirk’s wife Erika. And overall, Kirk’s death has become the epicenter of innumerable debates, conspiracy theories and sweeping proclamations about the state of political violence in the United States. 

Most of these unhinged assertions have to do with the motivations behind the killing, who is responsible and what should happen in response. But some of the public conversation about Kirk’s death has edged away from the realm of politics and into the world of Hollywood. 

And it’s these theories that really give us insight into a whole other worldview and an entirely different way of seeing reality. As far as I know, I don’t have Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), but I get to imagine what a brain injury must be like when I look at posts like this:

This man, a “MAGA facilitator” according to his bio, said that Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ son should play Charlie Kirk in a movie about the slain podcaster’s life. Aside from the questions I have about the choice (more on that shortly), I also have a few questions about what a “movie or TV show” about Charlie Kirk would consist of? Just like, hours of Kirk arguing with college kids? Creating his little list of communist professors? Kirk’s life has already been mined for television, and it barely covered 15 minutes worth of South Park.

But, more pressingly, why does this man think that the very handsome, 6-foot-5 Charlie Hall, the nepo baby of the one most successful comic actors of all time, would play Kirk? If a movie does get made about Kirk’s life, it will likely air on Newsmax or Fox News. Even the most untalented and unconnected nepo babies can score a role better than that. 

Hall, 28, hasn’t exactly starred in a ton of box-office hits, but he has been in a series of sweet romcoms, Netflix movies and the reboot of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I’ll admit that the two Charlies have a similar eyebrow shape going on and Hall is the same height as Kirk was. They even both make a ton of video content. But unless HBO is signing on to do a very high-end retelling of Kirk’s life, I can’t imagine Julia Louis-Dreyfus will allow her progeny to take on such a controversial role. 

Fortunately, I’m not the only one skeptical of this suggestion. “Do not disrespect mother JLD’s bloodline like this,” one person wrote. Another added, “you’re laughing. they’re gonna have JLD’s son wearing prosthetic gums and you’re laughing.”