The Silent Twins tells the story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin sisters who spoke only to each other. Here, actors Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance talk about representing the pair with “integrity, and beauty and love”
told a friend she’d been cast as Jennifer Gibbons, one of the so-called ‘silent twins’ who spent 11 years in Broadmoor with her sister during the 1980s, her response was telling. “Ohhh, you’re playing those murderers!” her friend exclaimed, displaying foggy recall, perhaps, of the press generated by the story, which tended to run from the rubbernecking to the outright ghoulish.
“June and Jennifer’s relationship was really complex,” says Wright, who plays June in the film. “Their silence was to protect themselves in a way, because they were clearly marginalised at school and in their neighbourhood for being Black, and when you go through something like that as a kid you really just want to shut down. And their way of solving it was to try and disappear as much as possible – you know, if we keep everything small and synchronised we won’t be bullied.
“They were putting a label on these children – that is what I thought they were – as psychopaths. How the hell can you decide that somebody has a mental health problem as serious as that if you don’t communicate with them? Expediency. Had they been white and middle class, the outcome would have been different.”In the years since the girls’ release from Broadmoor, the Gibbons family have mostly shied away from the public eye as they attempted to rebuild their lives.
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