Black Excellence: Mallori Johnson
Mallori Johnson on Relearning Her Own Face in ‘Is God Is’ and Learning Bravery From Her Co-Stars
There are roles that challenge you. And then there are roles that completely rebuild you.
For Mallori Johnson, Is God Is was both.
As Anaia — the quieter, more contemplative of the twin sisters at the center of Aleshea Harris’s genre-defying revenge thriller — Johnson didn’t just have to access some of the most emotionally complex material of her career. She had to do it underneath prosthetics that covered her face, relearning every expression, every subtle movement, every moment of vulnerability through a physical transformation she had never experienced before.
But the prosthetics were only part of the journey.