Ohio Sen. The Oscar-winning director of the film version of JD Vance’s memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” says how he is “very surprised and disappointed”. Republican Vice Presidential Candidate has changed.
Ron Howard said deadline that he and Vance “didn’t talk much about politics when we were making the movie because I was interested in his upbringing and that survival story.”
“That’s what we mostly focused on,” he said in an interview, according to a transcript posted online Saturday. “However, based on the conversations we’ve had during that time, I just have to say that I’m very surprised and disappointed by what I’m reading and hearing.”
Howard didn’t elaborate, but added: “People change, and I believe that’s the case.”
The book “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” has sold nearly 3 million copies and topped the New York Times bestseller list since its publication in 2016.
Netflix turned it into a 2020 movie starring Amy Adams as Vance’s troubled mother, Glenn Close as the grandmother who helped raise her, and Gabriel Basso as Vance, who wrote the screenplay.
The new senator also later enjoyed another surge in sales of his book is selected As former President Donald Trump’s running mate in July.
Howard, who won two Academy Awards for 2002’s “A Beautiful Mind,” said Vance “didn’t claim to be involved or particularly interested in politics” when he was making “Hillbilly Elegy.”
“So that was then. I think the important thing is to recognize what is going on today and vote,” he said.
Howard, interviewed while promoting his new film “Eden” at the Toronto International Film Festival, also said: Diversity That he is “surprised and concerned by much of the rhetoric” from the Trump-Vance campaign.
“There is no version of voting for Donald Trump to be president again, whoever the vice president is,” he said.
Howard also suggests that voters should not be swayed by his work in bringing Vance’s life story to the screen.
“Listen to what the candidates are saying today, it’s really relevant. That’s who they are today. And make a decision, knowledgeable,” he said.
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