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- Letitia Wright, Tamarah Lawrance, Michael Smiley
- December 9th 2022
- Agnieszka Smoczynska
Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance play real-life twins June and Jennifer Gibbons in this moving biographical drama.
Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance recently won the Best Joint Lead Performance award at the British Independent Film Awards for The Silent Twins and it’s clear to see why.
In the drama, directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska, they play real-life twins June and Jennifer Gibbons (Wright and Lawrance, respectively). They were dubbed the silent twins because they only spoke to each other for many years – they wouldn’t even speak to their parents.
Growing up in the only Black family in a small Welsh town in the ’70s and ’80s, the girls were shunned and bullied so they turned to each other, finding solace in the fantasy stories they wrote in their shared bedroom.
Their behaviour confounded experts at the time, and after a string of petty crimes, they were sent to Broadmoor psychiatric hospital, where they ended up staying for 11 years.
The Silent Twins, based on the book of the same name by Marjorie Wallace, a journalist who interviewed...
