{"id":33565,"date":"2025-02-17T11:24:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/actor-who-played-jd-vance-in-hillbilly-elegy-condemns-stars-who-get-political\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:24:25","slug":"actor-who-played-jd-vance-in-hillbilly-elegy-condemns-stars-who-get-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/actor-who-played-jd-vance-in-hillbilly-elegy-condemns-stars-who-get-political\/","title":{"rendered":"Actor who played JD Vance in Hillbilly Elegy condemns stars who get political"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Basso says actors should \u2018shut the fuck up\u2019 and that they have no authority to publicly bestow political views<\/p>\n<p>The actor who portrayed JD Vance in the Oscar-nominated film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/article\/2024\/jul\/19\/jd-vance-hillbilly-elegy\">Hillbilly Elegy<\/a> before the latter man became the vice-president of the US has said his fellow thespians should \u201cshut the fuck up\u201d rather than express their political opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Basso \u2013 now starring in the hit Netflix series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2023\/mar\/23\/the-night-agent-review-this-twisty-political-thriller-is-slicker-than-slick\">The Night Agent<\/a> \u2013 made those comments on a recent episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@GreatCompanyPodcast\">Great Company<\/a> podcast, cutting a stark contrast with his director on Hillbelly Elegy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/ron-howard\">Ron Howard<\/a>, who previously described himself as \u201csurprised and concerned\u201d from the campaign that ultimately left Vance a heartbeat away from the US presidency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/17\/jd-vance-gabriel-basso-hillbilly-elegy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Basso says actors should \u2018shut the fuck up\u2019 and that they have no authority to publicly bestow political views The actor who portrayed JD Vance in the Oscar-nominated film Hillbilly Elegy before the latter man became the vice-president of the US has said his fellow thespians should \u201cshut the fuck up\u201d rather than express &#8230; <a title=\"Actor who played JD Vance in Hillbilly Elegy condemns stars who get political\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/actor-who-played-jd-vance-in-hillbilly-elegy-condemns-stars-who-get-political\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Actor who played JD Vance in Hillbilly Elegy condemns stars who get political\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}