Vivienne Jolie-Pitt and Angelina Jolie attend the opening ceremony of ‘The Outsiders’.
Bruce Glikas/Getty ImagesAngelina Jolie Gained new insight into his daughter Vivienne while collaborating with her on a Broadway musical foreigner,
Jolie, 49, who produces the show, joined the cast after seeing an earlier version of the production along with 15-year-old Vivienne, now a producer’s assistant.
“As a mom, as a person, I was watching it, but I was really watching the impact it was having on my young daughter and what she was telling me about herself, and I was learning what about it was important to her and why it connected so deeply to her,” Jolie said during an interview on Monday, June 10. deadline,
“It was a very different experience to understand how important an impact this is having on her as a young person at this time, and that she’s communicating something to me,” he added. “That’s the power of this material, which was in really good shape even then. And then I had the privilege of watching everyone work on it last year, and Vivienne was there all the way.”
Jolie recalled that Vivienne visited her foreigner She went to La Jolla Playhouse in California “about five times” before asking her mother to come along.
“Viv loves theatre. She appreciates all kinds of theatre, but she definitely knows what she feels close to and what she responds to,” he said.
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Angelina Jolie, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt and Kristen Bell
Amy Sussman/WireImageAlthough Jolie said it was “hard” for her to identify why the music appealed to Vivienne “because she’s a complicated young woman”, she speculated that it had something to do with the show’s darker themes.
“I think it’s very deep, and it’s honest, and it doesn’t shy away from real emotions and real discussion and real pain,” she said. “I think probably every person who watches it can identify a little bit more with one character or another, but I think what you see is that there’s pain in life, right? There’s fear. There’s, ‘Who am I?’ and ‘Where am I from?’ There’s, ‘Why are these people marginalized and harmed more than others? Why do these people kill themselves? What are we facing in life?’ I think a lot of young people, especially today, these are very difficult times, and they want to have that real discussion, and they want to know what helps them move forward in life.”
foreigner It has been nominated for 12 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (Brody Grant) and Best Direction of Music (Danya Taymor) This musical is based on the play S. E. HintonThe novel, written in 1967, inspired the 1983 film.
Jolie revealed that when she first saw the show, the show’s producers approached her and asked her to share her thoughts on the musical adaptation.
“He asked, ‘What did you like?’ So, Viv and I sat down and we wrote down what we liked, what we were curious about. And he responded to our notes,” she recalled. “For me, it was a moment of getting to know more about Viv, not for me to think about becoming a producer.”
Jolie shares children Vivienne, Maddox (22), Pax (20), Zahara (19), Shiloh (18) and Knox (15) with her ex-husband. brad pittThe couple split in 2016 after two years of marriage and over a decade together. In 2019, he was declared legally single.
Last month, Shiloh filed the paperwork Legally drop your father’s last name So that she can be known as Shiloh Jolie. This request comes amid a controversial legal dispute between Jolie and Pitt Battle over French winery The property they previously jointly owned is yet to be approved.
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