Why twin brothers revealed secret child abuse on-camera in Netflix's 'Tell Me Who I Am'
LOS ANGELES - "Are you willing to tell me what happened to you in your childhood?"
All grew silent as the director's question hung in the air. Marcus Lewis had not expected to be asked this - asked to reveal memories so tightly held he had never uttered them aloud.
It was the fifth day of shooting on "Tell Me Who I Am," a documentary Marcus and his identical twin brother, Alex, had reluctantly agreed to participate in. It wasn't that the siblings didn't like the filmmaker, Ed Perkins. In fact, they'd grown surprisingly close to him in the six years since Perkins had approached them about turning their story into a feature film.
As they met with the director over the years - growing to trust him at various English pubs - they were even simultaneously becoming more comfortable sharing their journey with the public. They wrote a book about their life, promoting it during brief segments on breakfast TV.
Their story captivated
