Are the Jolie-Pitt kids officially joining team Angie? Vivienne's recent Father's Day appearance tells us all we need to know about what's going on between her and her dad.
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00:00Are the Jolie-Pitt kids officially joining Team Angie?
00:03Vivian's recent Father's Day appearance tells us all we need to know about what's going on
00:08between her and her dad. It's safe to say that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have had a number
00:13of messy moments over the course of their relationship. The messiness is ongoing,
00:17and Angelina and Brad's kids are seemingly completely at odds over their relationship
00:21with their father. But lately, it looks like they've been drawing a line in the sand.
00:25On June 16th, Father's Day, Vivian Jolie-Pitt, twin sibling of Knox and the youngest of Angelina
00:31and Brad's six children, notably chose to spend the day with her mom and not her dad.
00:36Fifteen-year-old Vivian accompanied her mother to the 77th Tony Awards,
00:41and the two attended the show together in color-coordinated outfits.
00:44While Angelina may be best known for her movie roles, she's gotten involved in Broadway this
00:49year — and she was at the awards show because she was a producer of The Outsiders. The show
00:53won several awards, including Best Musical. Of course, there's a big reason Vivian accompanied
00:59her mother to the event — she also worked on the show. She's listed in Playbill as producer
01:04assistant, but that credit also speaks volumes because she's credited not as Vivian Jolie-Pitt,
01:09but as Vivian Jolie.
01:10And your children are your best friends. It's a nice life."
01:13Unfortunately, this seems to be the latest blow in a long string of actions that see Brad's kids
01:18apparently distancing themselves from him. Vivian's older sister Shiloh celebrated her 18th
01:24birthday on May 27th, 2024, and she celebrated the occasion by submitting legal paperwork
01:30requesting that her name be formally changed to drop the pit off the end.
01:33A week after the request was filed, a source told People,
01:36"[Brad's aware and upset that Shiloh dropped his last name. The reminders that he's lost
01:41his children is, of course, not easy for Brad. He loves his children and misses them. It's very sad."
01:46And in November 2023, Essence posted a video of then-18-year-old Zahara Jolie-Pitt when she
01:53joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Spelman College. Introducing herself in the video,
01:58Zahara referred to herself as Zahara Marley Jolie.
02:02The flurry of name changes potentially says a lot about Brad's ongoing relationship with
02:06his children. After he and Angelina abruptly filed for divorce in 2016,
02:11the two spent years fighting over custody of their children. They've kept private about
02:15most of the details, but little indicators that the brood is becoming increasingly pro-Jolie
02:20keep leaking to the public. As another example, Daily Mail reported that Pax Jolie-Pitt posted
02:26a secret Instagram message on Father's Day in 2020 that called Brad a, quote,
02:30"'world-class a-hole.'"
02:31In light of her credit for the outsiders, it's unclear if Vivian is working to formally change
02:36her last name, too. She's only 15, so she can't do it as easily as her big sister.
02:41What is likely is that we'll probably be seeing Vivian's name connected with more productions,
02:46because according to her mom, she's a huge fan of theater. Angelina told Deadline that
02:50Vivian was actually a big reason she got involved with a Broadway production in the first place.
02:55The two of them went to see it when it played in California at Vivian's urging. Angelina explained,
03:00"'I was watching it, but I was really watching the effect it was having on my young daughter
03:04and what she was telling me about herself, and I was learning what about it was important to her
03:08and why it connected so deeply to her.' We love to see a mother and daughter working together
03:13so closely."
03:14Of course, we'd love to see a dad and daughter working closely together, too,
03:18but by the looks of things, that may not be in the cards for Vivian and Brad.