Angelina Jolie says that producing the Broadway adaptation of The Outsiders helped her to understand her daughter, Vivienne , more deeply. Sitting down with Deadline ahead of the 77th Annual Tony Awards on Sunday, the Girl, Interrupted actress, 49, opened up about her youngest child's love of theater and how it led to their involvement as producer and producer's assistant with the show. The Outsiders is nominated for 12 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical and Best Direction of a Musical, a nod that went to Danya Taymor, who sat down with Angelina for the interview.
Angelina previously shared with ET that it was a shared love of the production at the La Jolla Playhouse that began the process of them helping to bring the show to New York. In the new interview, though, she elaborated on but shared with Deadline just how much her child wanted to participate in sharing The Outsiders with the world. "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," Angelina shared with the outlet, adding that when Vivienne, 15, came to her and asked her to see it, she saw it as an opportunity to get to know her own child better. ".
..Danya speaks of how important it is to teenagers, how it was written by somebody who’s the age of my daughter, ri.
