Hillbilly Elegy director Ron Howard says hes surprised and disappointed by J.D. Vances campaign rhetoric

Ron Howard won’t be voting for J.D.Vance in the upcoming election.The famous filmmaker, 70, has a history with Vance, 40, who wrote the memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” that was adapted into a 2020 Netflix film directed by Howard.

But now that Vance is Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee for the November election, Howard has new opinions about the Ohio senator.“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.That’s what we mostly focused on,” Howard said in an interview with Deadline at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday.“However,” Howard continued, “based on the conversations that we had during that time, I just have to say I’m very surprised and disappointed by much of the rhetoric that I’m reading and hearing.

People do change, and I assume that’s the case.Well, it’s on record.”“When we spoke around the time that I knew him, he was not involved in politics or claimed to be particularly interested.

So that was then.I think the important thing is to recognize what’s going on today and to vote.”Howard added, “It’s not really about a movie made five or six years ago.

It is, but we need to respond to what we’re seeing, hearing, feeling now, and vote responsibly, whatever that is.We must participate.

That’s my answer.”In an interview with Variety at TIFF, Howard said he’s “been surprised and concerned by a lot of the rhetoric” that’s come from the Trump-Vance campaign.The Oscar winner also declared, “There’s no version of me voting for Donald Trump to be president again, whoever the vice president was.”Vance wrote about his about his life growing up in a working class Appalachian family to how he graduated from Yale Law School in his 2016 popular book.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 you...