Netflix’s The Night Agent star Gabriel Basso says he has no regrets about portraying Vice President JD Vance in the 2020 film, Hillbilly Elegy, based on Vance’s 2016 memoir. “He’s a cool dude,” the actor said.
“Did you ever imagine when you were playing [Vance] that he’d be in the White House?” the Associated Press asked Basso during a Wednesday interview, to which the actor replied, “No. No, it’s crazy.”
“And it is wild to think that I’ll be forever associated with his pipeline [to becoming Vice President],” he added.
The Hillbilly Elegy star went on to point out that now whenever people type in “vice president,” they will see “portrayed by Gabriel Basso.”
“That’s a wild historical thing that I’ve now done,” Basso laughed, to which the Associated Press asked, “Any…
