The final night of shooting was a race to be completed before the arrival of Tropical Storm Barry and had to be completed 3 nights later.
Director Tate Taylor chose Natchez, Mississippi as the location to represent Yuba County because of his great love for the town and the community.
Tate Taylor has previously directed Allison Janney in The Help (2011), The Girl on the Train (2016) and Ma (2019) (Juliette Lewis also starred in the latter)
Matthew Modine and Allison Janney, husband and wife in this film, played opposite each other in an episode of The West Wing (1999).