Vivienne Jolie-Pitt and Angelina Jolie attend the opening night time of ‘The Outsiders.’ Bruce Glikas/Getty Pictures
Angelina Jolie gained new perception into her daughter Vivienne whereas collaborating along with her on the Broadway musical The Outsiders.
Jolie, 49, who’s a producer on the present, acquired concerned after going to see an earlier model of the manufacturing with Vivienne, 15, who’s now a producer’s assistant.
“As a mom, as an individual, I used to be watching it, however I used to be actually watching the impact it was having on my younger daughter and what she was telling me about herself, and I used to be studying what about it was necessary to her and why it related so deeply to her,” Jolie stated throughout a Monday, June 10, interview with Deadline.
“It was a really totally different expertise of understanding, of how that is having a big impact on her as a teen proper now, and she or he’s speaking one thing to me,” she continued. “That’s the energy of this materials, which was in actually fine condition even by then. After which I had the privilege of watching everybody work over this final yr to make it into what it’s, and Vivienne has been there the entire approach.”
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Jolie recalled that Vivienne had been to see The Outsiders at La Jolla Playhouse in California “about 5 occasions” earlier than she requested her mother to tag alongside.
“Viv loves theater. She appreciates all theater however she definitely is aware of what she feels near and what she responds to,” she stated.
Angelina Jolie, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt and Kristen Bell Amy Sussman/WireImage
Whereas Jolie famous it was “arduous” for her to establish why the musical resonated with Vivienne “as a result of she’s a posh younger lady,” she guessed it has one thing to do with the present’s deep themes.
“I believe it’s simply that it’s very deep, and it’s sincere, and it doesn’t shrink back from actual emotions and actual dialogue and actual ache,” she stated. “I believe possibly each person who watches it’d establish barely extra with one character or one other, however what I believe you see by means of all of it is there may be ache in life, proper? There’s concern. There’s, ‘Who am I?’ and ‘The place do I belong?’ There’s, ‘Why are these folks marginalized and harmed greater than others? Why do these folks kill themselves? What’s it we’re going through in life?’ I believe numerous younger folks, particularly at this time, these are very troublesome occasions, they usually need to have that actual dialogue, they usually need to know what helps you get by means of life.”
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The Outsiders has been nominated for 12 Tony Awards, together with Finest Musical, Finest Efficiency by a Main Actor in a Musical (Brody Grant) and Finest Route of a Musical (Danya Taymor). The musical relies upon S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel of the identical identify, which impressed the 1983 movie.
Jolie recalled being contacted by the present’s producers and requested to share her ideas on the musical adaptation when she first noticed it.
‘They stated, ‘What did you want?’ So, Viv and I sat collectively and we wrote down what we preferred, what we have been interested in. And so they responded to our notes,” she recalled. “For me, it was a second to be taught extra about Viv, not me pondering of changing into a producer.”
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Jolie shares Vivienne, Maddox, 22, Pax, 20 Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and Knox, 15, with ex-husband Brad Pitt. The exes cut up in 2016 after two years of marriage and greater than a decade collectively. They have been declared legally single in 2019.
Final month, Shiloh filed paperwork to legally drop her father’s final identify so she may go by Shiloh Jolie. The request, which comes amid Jolie and Pitt’s contentious authorized battle over the French vineyard they beforehand owned collectively, has not but been authorized.
