Exclusive: Gabriel Basso has been set by director Ron Howard for the lead role of J.D Wade in Hillbilly Elegy for Netflix. Basso will star opposite Amy Adams and Glenn Close for director Ron Howard.
Basso previously co-starred in J.J. Abrams’s Super 8, Jordan Vogt-Robert’s The Kings of Summer and The Whole Truth opposite Keanu Reeves. Vanessa Taylor (The Shape Of Water) wrote the script based on the acclaimed book by J.D. Vance. It’s a potential star making role for the young actor.
The lead character is based on the author, whose memoir is about the Appalachian values of his Kentucky family and their relation to the social problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother’s parents moved when they were young. It’s an analysis of the poor white underclass, of growing up in the Rust Belt and of race and privilege in America.
Basso previously co-starred in J.J. Abrams’s Super 8, Jordan Vogt-Robert’s The Kings of Summer and The Whole Truth opposite Keanu Reeves. Vanessa Taylor (The Shape Of Water) wrote the script based on the acclaimed book by J.D. Vance. It’s a potential star making role for the young actor.
The lead character is based on the author, whose memoir is about the Appalachian values of his Kentucky family and their relation to the social problems of his hometown of Middletown, Ohio, where his mother’s parents moved when they were young. It’s an analysis of the poor white underclass, of growing up in the Rust Belt and of race and privilege in America.
- 4/12/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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