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How Tamara Lawrance Found Her Voice In ‘The Silent Twins’ & Hot Crime Noir Series ‘Get Millie Black’
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EXCLUSIVE: Silence has been golden for Tamara Lawrance who, paired with Wakanda Forever’s Letitia Wright in The Silent Twins, won the best joint lead performance trophy at the recent BIFA awards.
In director Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s picture they portray inseparable twins, Jennifer and June Gibbons, born to Barbadian parents in 1963. They made an unusual pact at an early age to remain speechless except for communicating with each other in an indecipherable dialect of their own design.
It’s a contrast to a TV drama Lawrence will star in next year, in which she plays a character with more than enough to say. She’s referring to the title role in Channel 4 and HBO’s six-part prestige series Get Millie Black, a crime noir thriller set in Kingston, Jamaica and the UK, created by writer Marlon James whose novel A Brief History of Seven Killings won him the 2015 Man Booker prize.
“The storytelling’s amazing,” Lawrance tells us of Get Millie Black. She stars as a belligerent (her word) ex-Scotland Yard detective who is back in Jamaica working for the local police on a missing person case “that kind of takes us somewhere that she was not expecting to go, physically but also into herself as well”.
The Silent Twins takes us on an unexpected journey as well. “I have people saying to me, ’Oh, yeah, I knew this story but I didn’t know this story. We have a different perspective that opposes the depiction of them in the media that hopefully allows us to sort of analyse a few home truths about the criminal justice system and also to empathize with people that we had previously vilified and ostracised,” says Lawrance, who plays Jennifer.
“I think the expectation was that the film would be more like a thriller but it incorporates a lot of
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