Letitia Wright, Known For Her Breakout Role As Shuri In ‘Black Panther,’ Has Been Cast In Upcoming Film ‘The Silent Twins’

Known for her roles in Black Mirror and Black Panther, Letitia Wright has secured another bag.

Wright has landed a new role in The Silent Twins, from up and coming award-winning director Agnieszka Smoczynska, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film is based on the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons.

The Gibbons siblings were labeled as ‘the silent twins’ because of the choice, to only communicate with each other.

Because of their decision to not communicate with anyone else, the two formed their own language.

Andrea Siegel has been selected to pen the script that will showcase the twins and their isolation, which “leads them to petty crime, violence, and their eventual incarceration.”

Over time, the girls formed a love/ hate relationship, which ultimately led them to believe that the only way for them to be free and live a regular life was if one or the other died.

Because of their decision, Jennifer commit suicide. However, the cause of death has never been confirmed and is a mystery still to this day.

 

Wright has a busy schedule this year as she’s also working on Disney’s Death on the Nile, and a sci-fi romance film called, Hold Back the Stars.

This isn’t the first time the Gibbons sisters’ story has made its way to Hollywood as the story was told in 1986 in the BBC tv drama The Silent Twins, Iand BBC documentary The Silent Twin – Without My Shadow in 1994.