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,

Gabriel Basso is reflecting on the small part he's played in American political history. "It's kind of weird to be included in that timeline" the actor told Variety in a recent interview while discussing his role as J.D. Vance in the 2020 adaptation of the newly-inaugurated vice president's memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.

The Netflix thriller star told This Morning it was "wild" that he was forever linked to Donald Trump's vice-president after playing him in Hillbilly Elegy.

Agent” star Gabriel Basso has opened up about what it was like playing Vice President JD Vance. Basso, 30, who portrayed Vance, 40, in the 2020 film adaptation of his book “Hillbilly Elegy,” says he finds it “kind of weird” to be a part of the “timeline” that tracks the author-turned-politician’s rise to VP.