'Us' broke record for largest movie opening with a black woman lead

Jordan Peele’s Us broke box office records during its opening weekend. The film raked in a cool $70 million from more than 3,700 theater locations across the U.S., leading the thriller to have one of the biggest grossing opening weekends for an original horror. More importantly, though, Us marked the biggest domestic movie opening for a film with a black woman lead.

Although 36-year-old Nyong’o already won the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences over with her 2013 role as Patsey in Steve McQueen-directed 12 Years a Slave—for which she won a Best Supporting Oscar for—Us is Nyong’o’s first lead role. With the success of Us, which saw a black family as the focal point of the film, and Peele’s directorial debut Get Out—in which the lead actor Daniel Kaluuya played a black man being victimized by his white girlfriend’s family—Peele revealed he has no intentions of casting a white person as the lead in any of his films.

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