“It’s kind of weird to be included in that timeline,” Basso said of his involvement in Hillbilly Elegy, telling Variety: “They made a movie of his book and my name will always be in the ...

“Papaw’s distant cousin—also Jim Vance—married into the Hatfield family and joined a group of former Confederate soldiers and ...

Gabriel Basso, 30, portrayed Vance in the 2020 adaption of Hillbilly Elegy before the politician was elected to the Senate. Despite acting as the politician throughout his law school days ...

Mr Vance was born into a far humbler environment in the steel town of Middletown, Ohio, raised in an unstable home by a ...

Among the books selected for review were 2003’s “Kite Runner,” a story about a boy growing up in Afghanistan amid the rise of the Taliban by Khaled Hosseini, and 2016’s “Hillbilly Elegy ...

Gabriel Basso has offered a more measured view of JD Vance than his Hillbilly Elegy co-stars. Before becoming Donald Trump’s vice president, Vance was known for writing the popular memoir ...

Actor Gabriel Basso, who stars in the Netflix thriller, "The Night Agent," and played a young JD Vance in "Hillbilly Elegy," believes actors should be entertainers, not political commentators.

The 30-year-old actor played JD Vance in Ron Howard’s Oscar-nominated adaptation of Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy in 2020. Speaking on the Great Company podcast, Basso argued that actors aren ...

The 30-year-old actor played JD Vance in Ron Howard’s Oscar-nominated adaptation of Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy in 2020. Basso is currently starring in Netflix’s The Night Agent ...

The 30-year-old actor played JD Vance in Ron Howard’s Oscar-nominated adaptation of Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy in 2020. Basso is currently starring in Netflix’s The Night Agent, while Vance has ...