This girl did not feel any disturbance.
The only lead female cast member of Broadway's “The Outsiders” said the show's creator Angelina Jolie helped advocate for her and the other women in the cast.
“I knew if anything ever happened she would stand by us, especially the girls,” Emma Pittmanwho plays Cherry Valance in the musical and shares the stage with the eight male leads.
“She was very, very much a part of our process, which was amazing. Whenever she was there, she always made us feel like we were in touch and supported by her.”
Pittman, 31, said Jolie, 49, “who is so real, grounded and kind,” joined the show because of her daughter, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, 16, who is also a producer on the show.
“Her kid came to see the show at La Hoya and he loved it and he watched it over and over again. And Viv said, 'Mom, you should come see the show,'” Pittman, a Mississippi native who now lives in Washington Heights, told The Post.
“And she was so moved by the fact that her child and she herself were being affected by this, that she thought, 'Let's be a part of this.'”
The mother-daughter duo spent a lot of time at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, where the show has been running since April, offering suggestions on how the musical, based on the 1967 novel and 1983 film, should be adapted.
“Angie never overlooks anything. When she's with us, when she's listening to people, she always takes her time,” Pittman enthused.
“And Viv was at almost every rehearsal, and it was great that there was a kid in that place who loved the story.”
After the show won Best Musical at this year's Tony Awards, Jolie also hosted an “after-after party” for the cast and crew at her clothing store, Atelier Jolie, in NoHo.
Pittman said Diane Lane, who played Cherry in the film version of “The Outsiders,” has also shown her support.
“It was really nice to meet her … She didn't really want to take any pictures. She really just wanted to watch the show and be a supporter and not make it about herself at all, which I thought was really sweet and kind,” she recalled.
After winning Broadway.com's “The Search for Roxy!” contest, Pittman will make her Broadway debut in 2022 as the lead in “Chicago,” replacing another A-lister, Pamela Anderson, who has also shown her some love.
“She was so sweet,” he said happily. “She gave me two dozen pink roses and the card said, 'Break a whip.'”
The starlet, who grew up in Batesville, Mississippi, a town of just over 7,000, made her first trip to New York City when she was a teenager, with her own dance studio.
Pittman, whose parents are both attorneys, said, “I remember just walking around and nobody knew who I was. And I was so fascinated by the idea that there were so many people in the city and nobody knew who I was, because I grew up in a small town and everybody knew my family.”
Her parents always supported her dream of being on stage and when she was in high school her mother enrolled her in the Joffrey Ballet School Summer Intensive for four summers.
“It was a huge leap for my mom … sending your kid to New York City without a chaperone. You live in a dorm at Pace, and take the subway to get to the Joffrey,” said Pittman, who explains further. Graduated from Wagner College of Staten Island,
The brunette beauty said the best compliment she has received from fans of the book is that she is exactly how they imagined the character of Cherry when they read the book.
“That’s my favorite compliment,” she said. “It makes me feel connected to something bigger than myself.”
Another compliment she hears “a lot” is that she looks like Rachel McAdams, who until June stars in “Mary Jane” on Broadway, just two blocks from “The Outsiders” theater.
“I thought about finding a way to get there,” Pittman said. “But I couldn't move on, like, what's my opening line? — 'Hi, everyone says I look like you?'”
