Glenn Close Played Trump’s Running Mate’s Mamaw

But what does Amy Adams think about all this? Donald Trump selected Hillbilly Elegy memoirist J.D. Vance as his running mate for the 2024 election, per NBC News. Vance will likely be ratified as Trump’s running mate at the Republican National Convention, which runs from July 15 through 18. Vance is currently an Ohio senator, after being elected to the position in 2023. “After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump said in his Truth Social post sharing his choice. Notably, in 2016, Vance called Trump the “opioid of the masses” in a guest column in The Atlantic. Since then, he’s become a bit more of a fan.

Vance rose to prominence with his 2016 memoir about growing up in poverty, which was later adapted into the 2020 film of the same name starring Amy Adams as his mother and Glenn Close as “Mamaw.” In Vulture’s review of the film, critic Alison Willmore noted Vance’s “desire to hold up his family, his own success, and his generalizations about the Appalachia from which they came as evidence that race has little to do with endemic poverty.” We have to imagine it will be very difficult for a man associated with Glenn Close’s eighth Oscar loss to win over the American public.

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