‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Director Ron Howard Turns on JD Vance: ‘Surprised and Disappointed’

‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Director Ron Howard Turns on JD Vance: ‘Surprised and Disappointed’

Ron Howard made JD Vance’s bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy into a major Hollywood movie four years ago. Now the filmmaker has publicly turned on the GOP vice presidential candidate, saying he is “surprised and disappointed” by the “rhetoric that I’m reading and hearing.”

At the Toronto Film Festival to promote his latest movie Eden, Ron Howard faced questions about JD Vance from multiple news outlets, some of which clearly had an ax to grind against Vance.

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