Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance are teaming up for Agnieszka Smoczynska’s English-language debut. Deadline reports that the pair will topline “The Silent Twins” for the Polish filmmaker.
Written by Andrea Seigel (“Laggies”) and based on Marjorie Wallace’s non-fiction book of the same name, the film tells the story of twin sisters “who were entirely silent, communicating only to each other in a private language. They became obsessed with writing fiction, boys, and crime in their teens but their intense bond ultimately turned into something more dangerous,” the source hints.
Best known for playing Shuri in “Black Panther” and “Avengers: Endgame,” Wright received an Emmy nod in 2018 for for her role in “Black Mirror” ep “Nish.” In 2019 the “Humans” alumna took home BAFTA’s Rising Star Award.
Lawrance’s credits include “Miss July” and “The Last Song.”
Smoczynska directed 2018’s “Fugue” and 2015’s “The Lure.” The former screened at Cannes and the latter won Sundance’s Special Jury Prize for Unique Vision and Design.
“The fact that the profession of a director has been perceived for so many decades as a man’s job is a total misconception,” Smoczyńska told us. “Why has it even been positioned in that way? It never made sense to me. Women, just like men, are excellent artists, and directing has been practiced by women since the inception of cinema. Lack of this understanding comes from the same place as lack of the understanding that women are excellent leaders and visionaries. Power suits us just as well as [it does] men,” she emphasized. “We have been denied that power for the same reasons that we have been denied power in other areas of our lives — from being paid equally to even having the same opportunities. Some more traditional men have a hard time being led by the women, and this movement – as well as others – is changing that. We are changing.”