Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s 'The Silent Twins,' starring Letitia Wright, explores the powerful bond between two sisters and its underlying mystery.
. In 1974, they relocated to Haverfordwest, Wales, becoming the only Black family in town. The twins became increasingly withdrawn and after committing a series of petty crimes, the duo were eventually institutionalized in Broadmoor Hospital, where they were locked up for 11 years.“Black Panther’s” Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance are siblings who grow up communicating only with each other in the drama “The Silent Twins.
“The movie is not exactly a copy of June and Jennifer‘s life; it’s the interpretation of their life,” Smoczyńska adds. “Of course, Marjorie’s book is very deep. It’s very precise and very detailed. And when I was working on the movie and I was working with my team, we studied everything that was on the internet and everything that was [in] Marjorie’s book. We [did] huge research. But it’s not a documentary drama. This is fiction.
“It gradually grew to, like I say in my book, a bit like a nursery game that they started to play,” Wallace says. “But like a lot of nursery games, they can become very sinister. And in this case, they discovered this power they had against the rest of the world. That together they formed a real power base. And then they couldn’t give that up.”
Over the years, because they didn’t communicate with the world, the twins were repeatedly diagnosed by doctors and specialists. However, Wallace, who is also the founder of British mental health charity SANE, doesn’t believe that those diagnoses were accurate. As June and Jennifer got more immersed in their writing, they became obsessed with understanding romance. That led to them venturing out from their bedroom and engaging in drugs and sex with a pair of local expat American brothers. In 1981, the sisters committed several crimes, including shoplifting and arson. During their trial, the twins were found guilty of 16 counts of burglary, theft and arson and given an indefinite sentence at Broadmoor at age 19.
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