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8/14/2025, 5:30:22 PM
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Ron Howard Seemingly Disowns His JD Vance Biopic ‘Hillbilly Elegy'
>What do you think the legacy of Hillbilly Elegy is now? Do you think about it?
>I don’t think about it. I know it’s a mixed bag and probably quite culturally divided. I also know that reviews were bad and the audience-reaction rating was pretty good.
>You obviously spent a lot of time with J.D. Vance back then; you did press together. Are you able to reconcile the person you knew and the character in the movie with the person you see now?
>Am I able to reconcile? Well, it’s happened, so I know what I’ve observed. It remains a bit of a surprise to me. I would not have seen it coming, and I wouldn’t have expected his rhetoric to be as divisive as it sometimes is. By the way, I’m not following him or listening to every word.
>I remember reading that the response to the film had really shocked him.Vance’s closest friend at Yale told Washington Post Magazine in 2022 that the critical derision for the movie was the “last straw” in his falling-out with elites. [A spokesperson for Vance did not respond to requests for comment.] Did you get that sense at the time?
>Yes, I did. He was frustrated by that. He loved Glenn Close’s performance and Amy Adams’s performance and liked the film. And he felt that, just as reviews had kind of turned on the book, his involvement was in some way tainting or coloring the critical response, and he resented it.
>I remember some suggested the response to the film might have turned him even more to the right.
>I can’t speak to that. When I was working with him, all his quotes about the administration were very public. He was trying to run an investment fund. So the run for Senate and the strategy he’s chosen to follow are not what I would’ve expected.
>Have you had any interactions with him since then?
>I did one text, after the election, which was just sort of “Godspeed. Try to serve us well.”
https://www.vulture.com/article/ron-howard-in-conversation.html
>I don’t think about it. I know it’s a mixed bag and probably quite culturally divided. I also know that reviews were bad and the audience-reaction rating was pretty good.
>You obviously spent a lot of time with J.D. Vance back then; you did press together. Are you able to reconcile the person you knew and the character in the movie with the person you see now?
>Am I able to reconcile? Well, it’s happened, so I know what I’ve observed. It remains a bit of a surprise to me. I would not have seen it coming, and I wouldn’t have expected his rhetoric to be as divisive as it sometimes is. By the way, I’m not following him or listening to every word.
>I remember reading that the response to the film had really shocked him.Vance’s closest friend at Yale told Washington Post Magazine in 2022 that the critical derision for the movie was the “last straw” in his falling-out with elites. [A spokesperson for Vance did not respond to requests for comment.] Did you get that sense at the time?
>Yes, I did. He was frustrated by that. He loved Glenn Close’s performance and Amy Adams’s performance and liked the film. And he felt that, just as reviews had kind of turned on the book, his involvement was in some way tainting or coloring the critical response, and he resented it.
>I remember some suggested the response to the film might have turned him even more to the right.
>I can’t speak to that. When I was working with him, all his quotes about the administration were very public. He was trying to run an investment fund. So the run for Senate and the strategy he’s chosen to follow are not what I would’ve expected.
>Have you had any interactions with him since then?
>I did one text, after the election, which was just sort of “Godspeed. Try to serve us well.”
https://www.vulture.com/article/ron-howard-in-conversation.html
