Celebrity How Jon Voight Stays Close to Angelina Jolie and His Grandkids Heading to Texas to shoot a TV show, the Oscar winner says he plans to Skype By Melody Chiu Melody Chiu Melody Chiu is an Executive Editor at PEOPLE overseeing music, events and emerging content. She has been with the brand since 2009, editing, writing and reporting across all entertainment verticals. She has written cover stories on Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Melissa McCarthy, Blake Shelton, Jordan Turpin and Sandra Oh. The Los Angeles native graduated from the University of Southern California and has appeared on Extra!, The Talk, Access Hollywood and Good Morning America. People Editorial Guidelines Published on July 22, 2010 07:30AM EDT Photo: Peter Brooker/Rex USA Jon Voight was in proud-papa mode Monday at daughter Angelina Jolie‘s Salt premiere in Hollywood. Soon, though, the Oscar-winning actor, 71, will be shipping out to Texas for the new TV show Lonestar, but he says the distance won’t put a damper on the relationship he’s building with his daughter and grandkids. “It’s hard for me to be away from my grandkids, yes, but I’ll stay in touch with them,” Voight told PEOPLE at a screening of show’s pilot episode at the Paley Center in Los Angeles. “Thank god we have this technology, and you know, we use all of it.” COVER STORY: Angelina Jolie on Brad Pitt: We Have Each Other’s Backs Specifically, Voight means Skype – and he plans to use it to chat with Jolie, Brad Pitt and their kids. “We’re just setting it up now,” the actor says. “Anyway, I love being in touch with the family.” Watching Jolie As for Jolie, with whom he had a famously fraught relationship, watching her in action in Salt was thrilling for Voight, who thought she elevated the action flick into something more gripping. “Her work is terrific,” he says. “And Angie, for some reason, has this emotional capacity to make every piece of this really authentic, ’cause it’s really unreal stuff that they’re doing. But that’s the genre and she gives another energy to it.” “She’s very, very good,” he says. “It’s not like a novelty. She’s really doing it.” One thing he admires about his daughter on screen: her versatility. “She’s a really talented person with a very wide range and lots of interests,” Voight says. “It’s interesting to talk to her about why she made the decision to this movie She was nursing two babies at the time that she decided to do this role.” Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Hold Court at Salt Premiere