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 Antebellum (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 Seventh Son (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.