Angelina Jolie Offers Advice to Those ‘On the Outside’ at Tony Awards

Earlier than Angelina Jolie launched The Outsiders solid efficiency on the Tony Awards, she delivered some impactful pearls of knowledge.

“S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders in highschool, half a century later, it nonetheless speaks to us. Society modifications however the expertise of being an outsider is common,” Jolie, 49, mentioned through the Sunday, June 16, awards ceremony on the David H. Koch Theater in New York Metropolis. “To any younger individual [and] any individual feeling on the skin, you aren’t mistaken to see what’s unfair.”

She continued, “You aren’t mistaken to want to discover their very own path and because the solid raises their voices, I hope it evokes lots of you watching to worth yours. Please welcome the extraordinary firm of The Outsiders.”

Jolie and her 15-year-old daughter Vivianne are producers on the Broadway adaptation of The Outsiders, which is up for a handful of Tony Awards together with Greatest Musical. To have a good time the consideration, each Jolie and Vivianne stepped out in type on Sunday. (Ariana DeBose hosted the 77th annual Tony Awards at Lincoln Middle whereas Skylar Astin emceed the American Specific “Broadway Fanfare” simulcast simply exterior.)

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Jolie shocked in a inexperienced Atelier Versace velvet robe with fluid draping on the bodice that coordinated a velvet shrug and satin footwear. Vivianne matched her mother in an emerald go well with.

The Outsiders in the end gained Greatest Musical, marking the primary Tony wins for each Jolie and Vivienne.

“Viv jogs my memory of my mom in that she isn’t centered on being the focus however in being a help to different creatives,” Jolie beforehand mentioned in an August 2023 assertion about their new roles. “She’s very considerate and severe about theatre and dealing laborious to greatest perceive methods to contribute.”

Jolie additionally discovered that working with Vivianne, whom she shares with ex-husband Brad Pitt, impacted the mother-daughter pair’s bond.

“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,” Jolie advised Deadline earlier this month. “I used to be studying what about it was vital to her and why it linked so deeply to her. “It was a really totally different expertise of understanding, of how that is having a major impact on her as a teenager proper now, and she or he’s speaking one thing to me.”

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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 12 months to make it into what it’s, and Vivienne has been there the entire approach.”

The Outsiders was tailored from Hinton’s 1967 novel, following teenager Ponyboy Curtis and his “greaser” when they’re at odds with the “Socs.” Francis Ford Coppola directed a movie model in 1983 starring Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillon and extra.