Janelle Monáe portrays feminist activist Dorothy Pittman Hughes, the aunt of actress Gabourey Sidibe. Monae would go on to act alongside Sibide in the psychological horror film A Escolhida (2020), released the same year as The Glorias (2020).
The film cast includes three Oscar winners: Julianne Moore, Timothy Hutton and Alicia Vikander; and one Oscar nominee: Bette Midler.
Filmed in Savannah, Georgia. And India.
The second collaboration between Julianne Moore and Alicia Vikander after appearing together in O Sétimo Filho (2014).
This is the second film where Julianne Moore plays a woman named Gloria, after playing the titular character in Gloria Bell (2018).
Julie Taymor: [Elliot Goldenthal score]: Elliot Goldenthal has composed almost every Julie Taymor film.