Angelina Jolie Learned ‘More’ About Daughter Producing a Show Together

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, received 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 essential to her and why it linked so deeply to her,” Jolie stated throughout a Monday, June 10, interview with Deadline.

“It was a really completely different expertise of understanding, of how that is having a major 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 good condition even by then. After which I had the privilege of watching everybody work over this final 12 months to make it into what it’s, and Vivienne has been there the entire method.”

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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 actually is aware of what she feels near and what she responds to,” she stated.

Whereas Jolie famous it was “onerous” for her to determine why the musical resonated with Vivienne “as a result of she’s a fancy younger girl,” 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 trustworthy, and it doesn’t draw back from actual emotions and actual dialogue and actual ache,” she stated. “I believe perhaps each person who watches it’d determine barely extra with one character or one other, however what I believe you see by all of it is there’s ache in life, proper? There’s concern. There’s, ‘Who am I?’ and ‘The place do I belong?’ There’s, ‘Why are these individuals marginalized and harmed greater than others? Why do these individuals kill themselves? What’s it we’re going through in life?’ I believe lots of younger individuals, particularly as we speak, these are very troublesome occasions, and so they need to have that actual dialogue, and so they need to know what helps you get by 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 Course 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 favored, what we have been inquisitive about. They usually responded to our notes,” she recalled. “For me, it was a second to be taught extra about Viv, not me pondering of turning 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 break up in 2016 after two years of marriage and greater than a decade collectively. They have been declared legally single in 2019.

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