{"id":145459,"date":"2025-01-22T07:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T07:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/gabriel-basso-says-its-kind-of-weird-to-have-played-jd-vance-in-hillbilly-elegy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T07:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T07:13:41","slug":"gabriel-basso-says-its-kind-of-weird-to-have-played-jd-vance-in-hillbilly-elegy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/gabriel-basso-says-its-kind-of-weird-to-have-played-jd-vance-in-hillbilly-elegy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Basso Says It\u2019s \u2018Kind of Weird\u2019 to Have Played JD Vance in \u2018Hillbilly Elegy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/gabriel-basso\/\" title=\"Gabriel Basso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Gabriel Basso<\/strong><\/a> is looking back at playing now-Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/jd-vance\/\" title=\"Jd Vance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>JD Vance<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t know, the 30-year-old <em>The Night Agent<\/em> actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2020\/10\/14\/amy-adams-glenn-close-star-in-hillbilly-elegy-watch-the-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">played a younger version of the 40-year-old politician<\/a> in the 2020 movie adaption of <strong>Vance<\/strong>\u2018s memoir <em>Hillbilly Elegy<\/em>. The movie, directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/ron-howard\/\" title=\"Ron Howard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ron Howard<\/strong><\/a>, also starred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/glenn-close\/\" title=\"Glenn Close\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Glenn Close<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/amy-adams\/\" title=\"Amy Adams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amy Adams<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a new interview, <strong>Gabriel<\/strong> opened up about meeting <strong>Vance<\/strong> while working on the movie.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2082818\"><\/span>\u201cIt\u2019s kind of weird to be included in that timeline,\u201d <strong>Gabriel<\/strong> told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/gabriel-basso-night-agent-season-2-jd-vance-quitting-acting-1236277805\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/gabriel-basso-night-agent-season-2-jd-vance-quitting-acting-1236277805\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/em> about now having a small part of American political history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he\u2019s thinking about his life \u2014 they made a movie of his book, and my name will always be in the description,\u201d <strong>Gabriel<\/strong> continued. \u201cWe talked a little bit. He\u2019s a cool dude. We\u2019re both from the Midwest. We just talked about life \u2014 about growing up in the woods.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><em>Variety<\/em> noted in their article that <strong>Gabriel<\/strong> \u201csidestepped\u201d when asked about <strong>Vance<\/strong>\u2018s beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>In another recent interview, <strong>Gabriel<\/strong> explained <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/01\/17\/gabriel-basso-shares-why-he-prefers-to-do-his-own-stunts-for-the-night-agent-watch-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">why he prefers to do all of his own stunts<\/a> for <em>The Night Agent<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/01\/22\/gabriel-basso-says-its-kind-of-weird-to-have-played-jd-vance-in-hillbilly-elegy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Basso is looking back at playing now-Vice President JD Vance. If you didn\u2019t know, the 30-year-old The Night Agent actor played a younger version of the 40-year-old politician in the 2020 movie adaption of Vance\u2018s memoir Hillbilly Elegy. The movie, directed by Ron Howard, also starred Glenn Close and Amy Adams. In a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}