Angelina Jolie Realized About Daughter Vivienne Whereas Producing ‘The Outsiders’

Angelina Jolie owes her position as a producer on Broadway’s The Outsiders to her daughter Vivienne.

In an interview with Deadline alongside The Outsiders director Danya Taymor, the actress, 48, revealed how her 15-year-old daughter’s love for theater and The Outsiders allowed her to study extra in regards to the teenager whereas producing the present collectively. 

“My daughter Viv loves theater. She appreciates all theater however she actually is aware of what she feels near and what she responds to,” Jolie defined. “She went to see The Outsiders at La Jolla about 5 instances and was telling me about it, and I had learn the e-book, and I’d seen the movie years in the past.”

What initially drew Jolie to the present was the “energy of the fabric” she witnessed by way of Vivienne’s eyes.

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“It was a really totally different expertise of understanding, of how that is having a big impact on her as an adolescent proper now, and he or she’s speaking one thing to me, and that’s the energy of this materials,” Jolie informed Deadline. “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 manner.”

Working as a producer assistant on the present, Vivienne was there each step of the best way, and as Jolie defined, “it was a second to study extra about Viv.”

“After we noticed it, we had been contacted by the producers, and so they stated, did you get pleasure from it, and we stated sure, and so they stated, what did you want? So Viv and I sat collectively and we wrote down what we appreciated, what we had been inquisitive about. They usually responded to our notes. For me, it was a second to study extra about Viv, not me considering of changing into a producer.”

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Even director Taymor observed Vivienne’s “unimaginable eye” for the present’s manufacturing. 

“Technical rehearsals within the theater aren’t for the faint of coronary heart. They’re lengthy days, and it moved me a lot that Angelina was there, as a result of that’s the way you earn individuals’s belief, and he or she gave us that. She had a lot pores and skin within the sport and a lot curiosity about all of it, and similar factor with Vivienne,” Taymor informed Deadline. “Vivienne would watch the present and provides me essentially the most superb notes. Like, unimaginable eye. So, it was a beautiful, great assist, and likewise, clearly, made the work higher.”

Because of the work of Jolie, Vivienne, Taymor, and so many others, The Outsiders is nominated for 12 Tonys, together with greatest musical. on the awards on June 16.

Jolie shares her six children — twins Knox and Vivienne, daughters Shiloh, 17, and Zahara, 18, in addition to sons Pax, 20, and Maddox, 22 — with ex-husband Brad Pitt.

The actress first introduced that she was producing the Broadway adaptation of S.E. Hinton’s novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 movie The Outsiders in August 2023.

Through the musical’s April 2024 opening night time, Jolie informed PEOPLE that Vivienne was the one who impressed her to tackle the venture.

“She noticed an early workshop a couple of instances after which invited me to it,” the actress stated.

“Viv is a younger artist who focuses her efforts on her assist of others,” Jolie added. “She has been there to help in any manner she will and has realized a lot from [score and co-book writer] Justin Levine and the entire artistic crew.”