Black Panther breakout star Letitia Wright has landed another significant role.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, The British actress is set to appear in The Silent Twins.
The Silent Twins is based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, real-life identical twins originally from the West Indies who grew up in Wales. The two became known as “the silent twins” because of their refusal to communicate with anyone other than each other. They developed their own language and became catatonic when separated.
The film will follow the girls as their isolation leads them to petty crime, violence and their eventual incarceration in the U.K.’s high-security mental health hospital Broadmoor, where they would be ferociously studied by doctors and psychologists, ignoring the protests of their family who argue they could lead a normal life. The girls developed a love-hate relationship and decided that the only way they could be truly free and be able to integrate into society, is if one of them died. Jennifer made the decision to take her own life, but the actual cause of death has remained a mystery ever since the tragedy.
The Gibbons sisters have already been the subject of a TV drama, 1986’s The Silent Twins on the BBC, and the BBC documentary Silent Twin — Without My Shadow, which aired in 1994.
The film should be an interesting one.
Now y’all are officially in the KNOW!
