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Jon Voight‘s tremendous stoked his daughter Angelina Jolie gained her first Tony Award … a win he says might not have occurred had his granddaughter not discovered the play!
We caught up with the legendary actor at LAX and requested about his daughter’s large win for producing ‘The Outsiders.’ JV’s over the moon for his kiddo.
Voight explains how Angie received concerned with the challenge … crediting his granddaughter Vivienne for watching the play a number of occasions earlier than it landed on Broadway and convincing her mother to test it out.
Voight says Jolie noticed it and fell in love with the present … ultimately calling him on the set of Francis Ford Coppola‘s “Megalopolis” to inform him she signed on to supply.
Jon says he sees the story as a transparent signal Vivienne’s received good style on this area … and suggests she may in the future be a Broadway producer herself.
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Plus, try the clip to listen to what Jon says the administrators of ‘The Outsiders’ consider Vivienne … certain seems like Viv’s able to observe in her mother’s footsteps.
She’s already received her first credit score underneath her belt … as we advised you, Vivienne was a producer’s assistant within the present, credited underneath the title “Vivienne Jolie” — asking to drop “Pitt” like her sisters Shiloh and Zahara.
She hit up the Tonys along with her mother — skipping a potential Father’s Day grasp with Dad Brad Pitt … trying in her aspect as the 2 walked the purple carpet in matching teal ensembles.
If Grandpa Voight’s proper, this may occasionally simply be Vivienne’s first of many Tonys … and, she could also be successful her personal silver statues sooner or later.