Jon Voight is a proud father and grandfather.
Voight, 85, gushed to TMZ about his daughter, Angelina Jolie, and granddaughter, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, taking dwelling gold on the 2024 Tony Awards with the musical they coproduced, The Outsiders.
“I’m very happy with Vivienne. I’m actually happy with Angie as a result of she actually tries to encourage every of the youngsters to be what they wish to be,” the actor informed TMZ in an interview revealed on Monday, June 24.
The Outsiders gained 4 awards together with finest musical on the Tonys on June 16. It was nominated in 12 classes.
Voight recalled how Jolie, 49, referred to as him to inform him that she was producing the Broadway model of the musical, and credited Vivienne, 15, with getting her mother concerned. Vivienne had beforehand launched Jolie to the musical throughout its 2023 run on the La Jolla Playhouse.
Angelina Jolie and Vivienne Kevin Mazur/Getty Photographs for Tony Awards Productions
“It’s superb. It’s attention-grabbing as a result of I simply labored with Francis [Ford] Coppola on Megalopolis. Through the filming of Megalopolis, I obtained a name from Angie and she or he mentioned, ‘I’m doing Outsiders,’” he defined. “Vivienne learn the guide after which went all the way down to see this pre-Broadway model near San Diego. She went down 4 instances and mentioned, ‘Mother, you’ve obtained to see this.’ Angie was very . It confirmed one thing of Vivienne she’d by no means seen earlier than.”
Vivienne is credited as an assistant and coproducer on the Broadway model of The Outsiders, which opened in April and relies on S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel of the identical identify and a 1983 Francis Ford Coppola-directed movie adaptation.
Voight thinks his proficient granddaughter might make a profession of manufacturing.
“The administrators of this piece mentioned she had expertise. She has a watch for one thing,” he mentioned.
Jolie, who shares Vivienne together with her ex-husband Brad Pitt, praised her daughter’s eye for theater once they have been introduced as producers on the Broadway model of The Outsiders in August 2023.
Angelina Jolie and Vivienne ANGELA WEISS/AFP by way of Getty Photographs
“Viv jogs my memory of my mom in that she isn’t centered on being the focal point however in being a help to different creatives. She’s very considerate and severe about theatre and dealing arduous to finest perceive methods to contribute,” mentioned Jolie in a press release on the time.
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“She’s been a very powerful assistant. She takes it very, very severely,” Jolie praised Vivienne once more in April when The Outsiders debuted on Broadway.
Vivienne is credited within the playbill for the manufacturing as “Vivienne Jolie” quite than “Jolie-Pitt,” the hyphenated final identify she shares together with her siblings, Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twin Knox, 15.
Shiloh is presently trying to legally change her identify to match her mom’s maiden identify.
