Ron Howard is weighing in onen JD Vance's vice presidential campaign four years after turning his Memoir into a feature film the Oscar winning hillbilly elegy director 70 told variety at the Toronto International Film Festival that he has been surprised and concerned by a lot of the rhetoric coming out of former president Donald Trump and Vance's 2024 campaign there was no version of me voting for Donald Trump to be president again whoever the vice president was he said but given the experience that I had then five or six years ago yeah I'd say that I've been surprised Howard also sent a message about the importance of voting in the 2024 presidential election