Actor Gabriel Basso Has No Regrets About Portraying JD Vance in 'Hillbilly Elegy'
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Basso played Vance in the 2020 Ron Howard film based on Vance's memoir.
Gabriel Basso said he doesn’t have any regrets about portraying Vice President JD Vance in “Hillbilly Elegy,” the 2020 film based on Vance’s 2016 memoir of the same name.
“At the time, he wasn’t even in politics,” Basso told The Associated Press in a clip posted to TikTok on Wednesday. “It’d be like asking somebody, ‘Do you regret being a friend to whoever in middle school?’ It’s like, you just knew them, and you worked with them and you were a part of their life and everything.”
Basso, who now stars in “The Night Agent” on Netflix, told the AP that it’s “wild” to think he will forever be associated with Vance’s “pipeline” to the White House.
“That’s a wild historical thing that I’ve now done,” Basso said.
Basso also told Variety that he and Vance “talked a little bit” before Basso filmed the movie.
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