Toni Morrison passed away on August 5, 2019, a month and a half after this film was released.
The image that appears along with the end of the opening credits is a collage of a head shot of Toni Morrison, with various fragments of decorative paper in front of it and behind it. The fragments are from a portrait of Morrison by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, the film's director. This image also appears on the cover of the film's 2019 DVD release.