Only just out in cinemas here, Davis' new film The Woman King is already off to a very solid start at the international box office, but it wasn't easy to get a movie about black women past those who control the purse strings.
The drama was first conceived back in 2015 and was only green-lit five years later in 2020.
"I think that [black women] usually have not led a global box office, especially in a film of this scope, this magnitude." But the star is among those leading progress - she's known for carefully choosing her projects, which include the August Wilson adaptations Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - to give a voice to little known stories of black history.
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