Jennifer Gibbons: Last News

Danai Gurira reunited with Letitia Wright on the red carpet for a special screening of their new film The Silent Twins.The 44-year-old Gurira and the 28-year-old Wright were all smiles at Metrograph in New York City.They posed on the red carpet with Kiska Higgs, President of Acquisitions Focus Features, producers Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska and Ben Pugh and director Agnieszka Smoczynska. Red carpet ready: Danai Gurira reunited with Letitia Wright on the red carpet for a special screening of their new film The Silent Twins Group shot: They posed on the red carpet with Kiska Higgs, President of Acquisitions Focus Features (left), producers Klaudia Smieja-Rostworowska (middle left) and Ben Pugh (right) and director Agnieszka Smoczynska (middle right)Gurira wore a stunning black satin gown with a plunging neckline with a full-length black leather trench coat resting on her shoulders.She accessorized with thin strand earrings and a number of rings with a small black handbag.

Marta Balaga Polish helmer Agnieszka Smoczyńska fought for Tamara Lawrance to be a part of “The Silent Twins,” she said at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. “We had two options: [hire] one actress who plays both characters, but there is no chemistry, or find actual twins, which was not possible. We had Letitia Wright, who was this amazing actress and ‘Black Panther’ star, and then we found Tamara,” she said. The story was inspired by real-life identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons, who only communicated with each other. “They are not that similar, so what do you do? You make a decision. And I knew she was the one, because it was all about this tension between them.”

After its debut at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, Agnieszka Smoczyńska‘s English-language feature debut, “The Silent Twins,” hits theaters this Friday. But before that, check out Fenn O’Meally‘s short companion piece to the film, “Kiin,” co-written by the movie’s two stars.

The Silent Twins, starring Black Panther’s Letitia Wright and British actress Tamara Lawrence.The Silent Twins first debuted at the Cannes Film Festival this past May, and is based on Marjorie Wallace’s 1986 book on the same name. In the official synopsis, the story is set “after a spree of vandalism inspired by an American boy they both idolize, when the girls, now teenagers, are sentenced to Broadmoor, an infamous psychiatric hospital, where they face the choice to separate and survive or die together.”The film tells the nonfictional account of June and Jennifer Gibbons, two identical twins born of immigrants from Barbados and raised in Wales.

Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczynska (The Lure, Fugue) makes her english language debut with The Silent Twins, the strange and remarkable story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twin sisters who only communicated with each other from 8 to later teen years when drugs and drinking led to petty theft and an arson charge that landed them in the tightly secured medical ward of Broadmoor  for 11 years before being released in the 1980’s. Creating their own puppetry and dolls, poems, and music which they only broadcast for each other on a fake radio program, the “twinies” as they were called by family fell into an odd void that became more pronounced, even when they were forced to go to separate schools at one point, and they carried on this way until becoming young women landing into legal troule  until incredibly being incarcerated for over a decade, five or six times as long as the longest sentence for the petty crimes of which they were accused.

Carole Horst Anita Gou’s producing career focuses on helping filmmakers and creatives bring their personal passions and visions to the screen. With Focus Features’ Cannes Un Certain Regard entry “The Silent Twins” from director Agniezska Smoczynska, her streak producing singular visions — such as Lula Wang’s “The Farewell” and “Honeyboy,” the collaboration of writer-actor Shia LeBeouf and Alma Har’el — continues. She started in the business right out of school getting her feet wet in post-production on bigger studio films. “I kind of quickly realized through that experience — though very fruitful and eye-opening — that my passion was really about more independently driven films, more idiosyncratic storytelling, storytellers and stories.