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Mom isn’t amused. Three years after being nominated for an Oscar for her role as JD Vance’s grandmother in the film adaptation of his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, Glenn Close turns out to have eclipsed Donald Trump’s running mate.
On Sunday, Close shared a smiling selfie with her cat, Eve, and wrote that the feline “would have left a bloody mouse head on the bed of anyone who criticized any kind of woman with a CAT. “His comments seem to reference Vance’s recent version of “childless cat ladies,” which he used to denigrate others who choose not to procreate.
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The comment drew a strong complaint from Jennifer Aniston (“I literally can’t, this is coming from a potential vice president of the United States,” she wrote on an Instagram account last month) and has since been defended through Vance’s spouse. Usha, who told Fox News that other people deserve to focus less on the “three-word phrase” to perceive her husband really meant “it can be very complicated to be a father in this country, and rarely are our policies designed in a way that makes it even harder. “more difficult.
So far, Close has publicly praised Vance’s role as Trump’s vice president or his involvement in Hillbilly Elegy, which, since Vance joined the list, has become the most sensible on the list of bestsellers and best sellers via Netflix. streaming titles. In the film, Close plays Mamaw, Vance’s grandmother, as she goes through a complicated relationship with her own daughter, Bev (Amy Adams), who is Vance’s mother. Close responded to Vanity Fair’s earlier request for comment on Vance’s political rise, but told NME in 2021 that the film was “made with politics in mind. “[Director] Ron [Howard’s] goal, and I think he did it magnificently, is to tell the story of a very well-spoken family.
The fact that Close earned Oscar and Razzie nominations for his supporting role in Hillbilly Elegy, losing to Minari’s Youn Yuh-jung and Music’s Maddie Ziegler, respectively, indicates the divisive nature of the film.
During his victory speech after winning a seat in the United States Senate in 2022, Vance thanked his real mother, Bonnie Blanton Vance, who died in 2005, and expressed their political differences. (Mamaw was a Democrat). “You don’t always agree with every single vote I make, [and] you don’t always agree with every single amendment I propose in the United States Senate,” Vance said. , “but I will never be the woman who raised me.
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