With their established moniker of “The Silent Twins,” June and Jennifer became what Lawrance referred to as “folklore,” characters in a strange narrative of their creation.

Twins Jennifer (left) and June Gibbons with journalist Marjorie Wallace, author of “The Silent Twins.” PA Images via Getty Images. Jennifer and June’s parents were from Barbados, and the ...

Casting identical twins. June and Jennifer were identical, however, the two sets of actors who play them in “The Silent Twins” are not. Originally, Smoczyńska considered using CGI so that ...

Jennifer Gibbons (Tamara Lawrance, left) and her twin sister June (Letitia Wright) enjoy spirited, creative lives when alone but fall mute in the presence of others in “The Silent Twins.” ...

June and Jennifer Gibbons, famously known as the “Silent Twins,” shared a unique and tragic bond that fascinated and baffled the world. Born in 1963 to a Barbadian family and raised in Wales ...

Adapted by Andrea Seigel from the 1986 book by Marjorie Wallace, “The Silent Twins” is a creative, quirky and fantastical biopic of June and Jennifer Gibbons, British twins from Wales who ...

June and Jennifer Gibbons cut themselves off from other people from a young age and became known as the "Silent Twins" - until one sister met an untimely and unexplained death ...

“The Silent Twins,” a new movie about June and Jennifer starring Letitia Wright (“Black Panther”) and Tamara Lawrance (“Kindred”) as the teenage and adult twins, aims to buck this trend.

The astonishing true story of June and Jennifer Gibbons is brought to the big screen with "The Silent Twins," a biographical drama from director Agnieszka Smoczynska. This challenging third ...

(From left) Tamara Lawrance and Letitia Wright star as Jennifer and June Gibbons in "The Silent Twins" film in theaters Sept. 16. (Photo: Lukasz Bak/Focus Features) The story of June and Jennifer ...

June and Jennifer were identical, however, the two sets of actors who play them in “The Silent Twins” are not. Originally, Smoczyńska considered using CGI so that Wright, who is also an ...