Angelina Jolie recently opened up about working with her daughter Vivienne on The Outsiders. The film, that brought the Maleficent actress several Tony nominations, also happened to form a deeper bond with her 15-year-old daughter. During an interview with the Deadline , the humanitarian talked about Vivienne’s interests.
Conversing with The Outsiders director Danya Taymor, Jolie noted: "My daughter Viv loves theater. She appreciates all theater but she certainly knows what she feels close to and what she responds to.” Recalling the instance, she continued: “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.
" Reflecting on her experience watching the film, that is a musical adaptation of the S.E. Hinton 1967 novel, the actress talked about her daughter establishing a deep connection.
While the mother-daughter duo watched it at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego in March 2023, The Tourist alum shared: "Really, as a mother, as a person, I was watching it, but I was really watching the effect 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." The 49-year-old actress regarded the film as “powerful” and a very “different experience of understanding.” Concluding her statement, she added: "How this is having a significant effect on her as a young person ri.