“We can lead the box office,” star Viola Davis recently told EW.

Viola Davis' historical epicThe Woman Kingreigned supreme at the weekend box office.

1 with $19 million across 3,765 North American theaters, according to Comscore.

The Woman King

Viola Davis wages war against European colonialism in ‘The Woman King’.Ilze Kitshoff/TriStar Pictures

It’s just not going to happen.

I dreamed the biggest dream and it’s not going to happen.'"

“And then it does,” the Oscar winner continued.

“We can lead the box office,” she added.

1 last week, slipped to No.

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