Ron Howard spoke candidly when asked for his thoughts on the “legacy” of his film adaptation of JD Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy, telling Vulture, “I don’t think about it.”

The film’s reception is “probably quite culturally divided,” Howard acknowledged in the new interview, but he seemed to take solace in the fact that even though “reviews were bad,” the “audience-reaction rating was pretty good.”

Vance’s public persona as MAGA vice president “remains a bit of a surprise to me” and “I would not have seen it coming,” Howard also said.

“I wouldn’t have expected his rhetoric to be as divisive as it sometimes is. By the way, I’m not following him or listening to every word,” he said.

Howard adapted Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy book for Netflix in 2020, tapping Amy Adams and Glenn Close to p

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