'Hillbilly Elegy' director Ron Howard says he's 'surprised and disappointed' by J.D. Vance's campaign rhetoric

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The famous filmmaker, 70, has a history with Vance, 40, who wrote the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” that was adapted into“Well, we didn’t talk a lot of politics when we were making the movie because I was interested in his upbringing and that survival tale.

Howard’s movie starred Glenn Close as Vance’s grandmother, Amy Adams as Vance’s mother and Gabriel Basso as Vance himself. Owen Asztalos played a young Vance.and was nostalgic about Vance visiting the set of the film, but then she went after the senator for flip-flopping his stance on Trump, 78.

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