Angelina Jolie has given a rare insight into her close relationship with her 15-year-old daughter, Vivienne. The 49-year-old actor recently praised her teenage daughter, whom she had collaborated with during the production of the Broadway musical, The Outsiders . Jolie served as producer on the musical, while Vivienne worked as her assistant.
In an interview with Deadline published on 10 June, the Maleficent star praised Vivienne and explained how she was the one who inspired her to become involved in the project. Speaking to the outlet, Jolie shared that Vivienne attended several stage productions of The Outsiders at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego, California – before the show moved to Broadway – and finally convinced her mother to attend a show. “My daughter Viv loves theater.
She appreciates all theater but she certainly knows what she feels close to and what she responds to. She went to see The Outsiders at La Jolla about five times and was telling me about it, and I had read the book, and I’d seen the film years ago,” Jolie said. The Outsiders musical, based on the 1967 SE Hinton novel of the same name and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film adaptation, follows the same story of 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis and two rival gangs in rural Oklahoma.
The stage production, directed by Danya Taymor, received 12 Tony Awards following its move to Broadway last April. The mother of six said it was “important” for her to understand why her daughter had enjoyed the comin.
