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Angelina Jolie and her father, Jon Voight, have had an on-and-off relationship over the years, with long periods in which they were estranged and others in which they have been very close. Today, the actress seems to be having a good relationship with her father, or at least that can be speculated due to his latest statements.
The actor took a few minutes to praise his daughter and granddaughter Vivienne, 15, who won the Tony Award for Best Musical last weekend in New York. “It’s incredible,” he told TMZ, referring to the duo’s win for the musical they co-produce, The Outsiders. “I am very proud of Vivienne and very proud of Angie because she really tries to encourage each of her children to be what they want to be.”added the happy grandfather. The actor of Anaconda85, said Vivienne, who is credited in the play currently running on Broadway as an assistant and co-producer, introduced the actress to Maleficent49, into the musical universe after seeing it several times in San Diego.
“Vivienne read the book on which the play is based and went to see the pre-Broadway version near San DiegoVoight explained. “He went four times and told her: ‘Mom, you have to see this.’ Angie was very interested because she could see something about Vivienne that she had never seen before,” she continued and assured that the director of the play believes that her granddaughter “has talent and an eye for this.”
Vivienne is one of the six children Jolie shares with ex-husband Brad Pitt. The couple also has Maddox, 22, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, Pax, 20, and Knox, who is Vivienne’s twin.
Jolie and Voight have had ups and downs throughout their lives. Although father and daughter have had several reconciliations throughout their tense relationship, they have also experienced many turbulent moments that have led them to distance themselves and not speak to each other for many years.
Voight’s infidelity when he was married to Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, and their subsequent divorce were also apparently the reason for the rift between father and daughter, with grudges that have resurfaced over the years.
Voight and Bertrand married in 1971 and had two children: James and Angelina. The couple separated a year after the star was born and officially divorced in 1980, when Jolie was just five years old. “I had an affair with another woman and got divorced. There was a lot of pain and anger.”, he confessed some time ago, during an interview.
Jolie and her older brother were raised primarily by their mother. Meanwhile, Voight appeared sporadically in her children’s lives, taking them to movie premieres and public events. “When my father had a lover, he changed my mother’s life,” Jolie wrote after her mother died. “He set her dream of a family life on fire. But she still loved being a mother.”
In 2001, father and daughter became close during the filming of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, but Jolie reportedly broke ties with her famous father again shortly after. “We don’t talk much anymore,” declared the star of The substitute to Vogue in 2002.
Some time later, with the birth and adoption of his grandchildren, Voight became closer to his daughter again. According to the media, Pitt was responsible for their relationship again. “Reuniting with my Angie is very valuable to me,” he said. Voight praised Jolie’s role as her mother and stated that the actress Interrupted innocence She was a “very attentive mother.” “He is with them, he is always with the children. He gives them love every second of his days“, said.
For her part, Jolie highlighted her father’s role as a grandfather. “He was very good and understood that the kids needed his grandfather,” she said during an interview. “The other day he had to take care of them and he knew how to do it. “He is a creative grandfather, he spends time with them, he tells them stories,” she added.
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