Aleshea Harris wrote “Is God Is” with the assumption that it would never be performed as a play, let alone turned into a movie. It was simply a story she needed to get onto the page: A tale of rage and revenge, an ancient Greek tragedy melded with Spaghetti Western tropes centered on contemporary Black women, twins, on an epic, violent journey to find the father who wronged them. She even rewatched Quentin Tarantino's “Kill Bill” while she was writing.
“I’ve endured so many narratives in which Black women, they’re just sort of downtrodden victims, you know? They endure, they gain their strength and we love them because look at what all she can take. I think that’s horrific,” Harris told The Associated Press in a recent interview. “This was my antidote to that. This was my medicine to myself for that.”
