Sarah Jessica Parker Has ‘Great Concerns’ Over Trump Administration Hurting Public Institutions Like Libraries, Says Book Bans ‘Feel Like a Virus’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Sarah Jessica Parker stopped by the Variety Studio presented by Audible at Sundance and expressed concern over how Donald Trump’s second term as president will impact public institutions like libraries.
The “Sex and the City” icon is an executive producer on the documentary “The Librarians,” which is directed by Kim A. Snyder.
The doc follows a group of librarians, dubbed FReadom Fighters, who have resisted book bans in Texas, Florida and beyond. Texas school librarians founded the group after lawmaker Rep.
Matt Krause targeted 850 books to be removed from the state’s libraries, leading to bans on books such as “Catcher in the Rye” and “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Parker told Variety’s co-editor in chief Ramin Setoodeh that she was compelled to sign on to the film as an executive producer because she grew up in libraries as a young girl and “understood immediately” that book banning “feels dangerous and like a virus.” “The idea of these librarians being in the crosshairs, it felt really scary and wrong and absolutely misunderstood,” Parker said. “By allowing [book banning] to take place, we’re allowing something dangerous to happen to all of us.
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