“It was an opportunity to learn more about Viv.” Angelina Jolie talks about working with her daughter Vivienne on The Outsiders.

Strangers has been nominated for 12 Tony Awards, and none other than Angelina Jolie’s producer and Vivienne Jolie are behind the production of this musical. Mother and daughter actually collaborated on S.E. to adapt Hinton’s novel for Broadway, which had already been adapted for film by Francis Ford Coppola in 1983. Angelina Jolie credits her youngest daughter with this successful collaboration. in the interview given to deadline next to the director Strangers48-year-old actress Danya Taymor revealed how her 15-year-old daughter’s love for theater and history. Strangers allowed him to become more interested in this work. “My daughter, Viv, loves the theater,” he explains. He loves all theater, but he certainly knows what he feels close to and what he responds to. He went to see Strangers in La Jolla about five times and told me about it, even though I had read the book and seen the movie years before.” While familiar with the story of 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis, his two brothers and his best friend Johnny the Grazer, who struggle to get by and take on the wealthy rival gang the Socs, the actress says she discovered the story. another light through his daughter’s eyes. “It was a completely different experience, realizing what a significant impact it had on him as a young man,” the actress said.

After watching the movie together, mother and daughter exchange their impressions. “After seeing the film, the producers contacted us and asked if we liked the film,” he says. So Viv and I sat down together and wrote whatever we liked, whatever interested us. And they responded to our posts. It was an opportunity for me to learn more about Viv, rather than thinking about becoming a producer.”

Apparently very close, Angelina Jolie and her daughter attended a preview of their musical together on April 11. Recently, on May 30, they appeared more than ever on the red carpet of the opening night of the musical comedy film. Reefer Madness. The Musical Revival: in Los Angeles.

Amazing contrast with Brad Pitt

This closeness between the actress and her youngest daughter further emphasizes the distance that is growing between Brad Pitt and his children. Vivienne no longer introduces herself as Jolie-Pitt, but only as her mother. The girl signed her participation in the production Strangers only the name “Jolie” listed in the credits of the project in Playbill magazine. Thus erasing the father’s name. In May, the eldest daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Shiloh, took the same step, asking to legally remove her father’s surname. Earlier, in November of last year, it was their adopted daughter, Zahara, who asked to be called Zahara Marley Jolie during an acceptance ceremony at the university where she studies.

After the divorce of the two movie stars in 2016, Brad Pitt’s relationship with his children seems increasingly strained. Recall that in the twists and turns of his never-ending divorce from Angelina Jolie, the actor announced that he was giving up joint custody of his children on March 31. Since then, even Angelina Jolie has reported on their child abuse.