The ‘Black Panther’ star discusses bringing the astonishing true story of June and Jennifer Gibbons to life.
Letitia Wright plays June Gibbons, one half of a pair of the real-life identical twins who made headlines in the 1980s for having ceased all communication with the outside world. Growing up as the daughters of the only Black family in a small town in Wales, June and her sister Jennifer coped with fierce bullying and an acute sense of isolation by turning inward, creating their own made-up language and a rich fantasy life which they documented in their prolific diaries.
I saw a couple. I try not to dive into it because I’m always hesitant that it has a negative spin on the twins, which is not really what I think is the truth. It’s much deeper. Our film breaks the perception that they were weird or strange. They were just misunderstood by society and failed by the system, and they protested with silence.
The twins not talking was just their reaction to the circumstances of their environment. From the beginning, they were bullied, they were ostracized in their community. They were two Black girls in an all-white school. And they didn’t want to communicate because, from research, we found out they had a speech impediment. Being bullied, I feel like, was a big reason why they went inwards and why they tried to protect themselves.
We wanted to find an understanding of why they moved and chose to communicate the way they did. They kept silent and moved in a synchronized way to stay one.The Silent Twins.The world these twins created in their minds is so full of fun, excitement, wonder, and creativity. which is illustrated in the film through stop-motion animations.
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