Sarah Jessica Parker is back on the big screen.
This time, however, New York City is merely a backdrop for her powerful performance as a singer who has to come to grips with a grim, life-changing medical diagnosis.
“I was very worried about the emotional life [because] there’s so much internalized,” Parker said Friday on “Good Morning America” about her role as Vivienne in “Here and Now.” “It’s about a singer in New York who had a modestly successful career and at the beginning of the movie is diagnosed with a glioblastoma.”
The film follows the next 24 hours of her character’s life after the diagnosis, which Parker called “a reckoning.”
The actress, 53, said playing such a lonely character seemed “scary” at first but she was actually “shocked at how accessible all of it was.”
“We had a director that created an environment where everybody felt just really relaxed and comfortable,” she said.
Parker said she lost a person “very dear” to her from glioblastoma, the same diagnosis that Sen. John McCain died of the week Parker said they started filming this movie.
“It doesn’t require a lot to feel the terror, the devastation, the enormous sense of having no ballast when you hear that kind of news. I can’t imagine, of course, but I tried,” she said.
The actress made her Broadway debut at the age of 11 in the 1976 revival of “The Innocents” and famously played “Annie” from 1979-1981.
Parker hinted that she may soon return to the stage.
“I’m thinking there might be something coming,” she said.
“Here and Now” is now in theaters.
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