Exclusive: Is God Is interviews with Kara Young, Mallori Johnson, Vivica A. Fox, Sterling K. Brown, Erika Alexander, Janelle Monáe & Aleshea Harris
Hitting theaters on May 15 from Amazon MGM Studios is Is God Is, written and directed by Aleshea Harris and an adaptation of her award-winning stage play of the same name. The twin sisters Racine and Anaia with disfiguring burn scars are ordered by their bedridden mother (known as "SHE" or "God") to kill their abusive father who caused their scars.
The movie stars Kara Young, Mallori Johnson, Janelle Monáe, Erika Alexander, Mykelti Williamson, Josiah Cross, Justen Ross, Xavier Mills with Vivica A. Fox and Sterling K. Brown.
Aleshea Harris is directing from her own script adapted from her 2018 stage play which opened Off Broadway at the Soho Rep.
In Is God Is, twin sisters Racine and Anaia have disfiguring burn scars and are eking out a dismal existence in a city that doesn’t feel like home. Though twins, they couldn’t be more different. Racine, whose scars are only on her torso and hands, is the defender, hitting back at their many bullies since childhood. Anaia, whose scars have marked her face, is the quiet one, content to live in her sister’s protective shadow.
Their world is upended when the mother they’d believed long dead summons them to her bedside and reveals that their father is responsible for her bedridden state as well as the twins’ scars. They listen in disbelief as she orders them to kill their father for what he has done. Will they take up arms and spill blood? Or find mercy on the road to confront the man who destroyed everything?
It's produced by Tessa Thompson, Kishori Rajan, Riva Marker, Janicza Bravo, and Aleshea Harris.
Blackfilmandtv.com's Wilson Morales talks to Is God Is cast members Kara Young, Mallori Johnson, Vivica A. Fox, Erika Alexander, Janelle Monáe, writer-director Aleshea Harris, and Sterling K. Brown on Is God Is.
