In an interview published Wednesday, filmmaker Ron Howard revealed what he had texted Vice President J.D. Vance in 2024.
“I did one text, after the election, which was just sort of ‘Godspeed. Try to serve us well,’” Howard told Vulture.
Howard had worked closely with Vance during the filming of “Hillbilly Elegy,” a biopic released in 2020 about Vance’s troubled upbringing.
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While working with Vance prior to 2020, Howard hadn’t anticipated the man would follow the political path that he did, he told Deadline in a September 2024 interview.
“Well, we didn’t talk
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