CHRIS NIERATKO: Welcome.
You're about to enter a new dimension, to see things
you've never experienced before--
two men with one face, in a constant pursuit of pussy.
Social norms completely out the window.
You are about to enter into the twin zone.
[HUMMING]
[MUSIC]
CHRIS NIERATKO: Allow me to introduce you to Sydney and
Thurman Sewell, AKA the ATL twins.
About a year and a half ago, I was in Atlanta for a Red Bull
skate tour for "Skateboarder Magazine." My roommate and
photographer, Jonathan Mehring, said he had just met
these gangster-ass twins who sleep in the same bed, and
only fuck the same girl.
I pulled up my pants.
And I told my roommate, take me to them.
The short of it is, they live together in Atlanta in a high
rise and share everything-- clothes, women.
They were both engaged to the same Penthouse pet, and are
both looking forward to marrying the same woman and
fathering the same child.
The long of it is that they're the most unique twins I've
ever come across, and are a psychologist's wet dream.
I interviewed them for vice.com in a twin story so
amazing, so unique, that it got millions of page views in
the first two days.
Over the last year and change, the twins have blown up.
They modeled in a fashion shoot for "Purple Magazine,"
shot by Terry Richardson, made the "Rolling Stones'" 2012 hot
list, and now starring in Harmony Korine's new movie,
"Spring Breakers," where they play drug dealers alongside
James Franco.
Judging from internet comment boards, people love
to hate on the twins.
And some people doubt they're even real.
But I assure you, they are.
And no one knows the full story, until now.
-Yeah.
I'm walking to the courthouse right now.
CHRIS NIERATKO: They live double lives, working as
paralegals by day, and gangster-ass Don Juans to
Atlanta's singles scene on a nightly basis.
We've never seen the likes of Sydney and Thurman Sewell.
And I doubt the world is ready.
We are in Hotlanta.
And we are going to visit my buddies, Sydney and Thurman
Sewell, better known to America as the ATL twins.
SIDNEY SEWELL: You could braid my hair.
That would be pretty amazing.
THURMAN SEWELL: Yeah.
I'm not sure it's long enough.
SIDNEY SEWELL: It's long enough.
Trust me.
CHRIS NIERATKO: So when I first met yous guys, you were
big fish, small pond.
Now yous guys have blown up since then.
What's changed since I met you?
THURMAN SEWELL: Shit, man.
We've got some good opportunities, man.
A lot of people reached out to us after that--
like, big names.
SIDNEY SEWELL: In that thing, it said our dream was to
become reality stars, which I don't know if we
ever even said that.
Maybe we did, wasted.
THURMAN SEWELL: And then Harmony hit us up, and
Harmony's like, don't fucking do any reality shows.
We went and met with Harmony.
SIDNEY SEWELL: It was just magical.
We just clicked, man.
I mean, seriously, we was in Nashville.
THURMAN SEWELL: And he was talking about I'm doing this
movie, "Spring Breakers."
SIDNEY SEWELL: Told us all about "Spring Breakers."
THURMAN SEWELL: The script's already done.
But I'm gonna fucking find a part for you guys.
SIDNEY SEWELL: Filming "Spring Breakers" was like one of the
best times of our lives.
And we look at things differently
now because of that.
THURMAN SEWELL: To be in a movie, a
Harmony Korine movie--
we're huge fans of Harmony Korine, before we ever met the
motherfucker.
SIDNEY SEWELL: He's not mainstream.
But if you know what's up, you would know who Harmony is.
CHRIS NIERATKO: He wrote yous guys in, didn't he?
THURMAN SEWELL: There was a part for a drug dealer on
Franco's clique.
He was like, I'm just gonna make it two.
CHRIS NIERATKO: Why do you think you guys
get hated on so much?
SIDNEY SEWELL: Why do we?
THURMAN SEWELL: I think people just hate, yo.
SIDNEY SEWELL: People think we're wiggers.
CHRIS NIERATKO: You think that's what it comes down to?
THURMAN SEWELL: A lot of haters.
SIDNEY SEWELL: A lot of people talking shit.
Meth-head, fucking crack head, inbred, white trash, twincest.
We've heard it all.
THURMAN SEWELL: I guess, what was it?
If you're not getting hated on, then you're not doing it?
I guess we're doing it.
SIDNEY SEWELL: They have this vision of us--
THURMAN SEWELL: They think we're real
thugged out or something.
SIDNEY SEWELL: And wiggery.
You know what I mean?
Who cares.
We have fucking grills.
So what?
It's accessories.
It's like wearing a chain, you know?
We like to get fresh.
Sorry.
I think a lot of people we meet in person are, like, kind
of shocked.
Like, wow.
Not to mention we're cool as shit.
Like, I don't care who you are and what status you are--
THURMAN SEWELL: I'm good friends with Jamie Thomas.
I'm good friends with Guy Mariano, Brandon Biebel.
I mean, if we're such wiggery pieces of shit meth heads, I
mean, why would somebody like that fuck with us?
There's a reason people fuck with us.
You know what I'm saying?
LIL WYTE: Anytime I'm downtown, man, I try to look
up the twins.
They're just humble dudes, man.
I'm one of them humble guys, too.
I don't like kicking it with people who think they're too
Hollywood to hang out.
I don't like people that just ain't real motherfuckers, man.
And the twins are two of the realest motherfuckers I've
ever met in my fucking life.
Their story is some fucking VH1 shit, too.
CHRIS NIERATKO: Do twin friends act like this?
DORIAN GRAY: No.
Actually, they don't.
Actually, the twin friends I knew hated each other.
But these two actually figured out how to shine together and
make it brilliant.
SIDNEY SEWELL: We feel very blessed to be a twin.
Like, to be twins, you know what I mean, and just have
each other.
Because at the end of the day, everybody can go fuck
themselves.
We have each other.
We understand that we're born, we're different.
You know what I mean?
We understand that nobody ever will understand what it's
really like to be how we are, just like we'll never
understand what it's like for you to be alone.
CHRIS NIERATKO: What's the longest you
guys have been apart?
SIDNEY SEWELL: Six hours.
People ask the question, what if one of you died?
Well, I would die too, because I would go
jump off the balcony.
You know?
THURMAN SEWELL: Seriously.
It would have to be like that.
SIDNEY SEWELL: It's not an option, man.
There's no way we could live without each other.
Really, when it comes down to it, we're the same person.
We play roles.
We play different roles.
But we're a team.
Like, he drives.
THURMAN SEWELL: He manages money.
SIDNEY SEWELL: I deal with bills and shit.
Trust me.
It's all fair, you know?
THURMAN SEWELL: But we couldn't live
without each other.
SIDNEY SEWELL: We're just a packaged deal.
That's how we're born.
THURMAN SEWELL: It is what it is.
CHRIS NIERATKO: What I think it comes down to is that
people are jealous that yous two are
banging a bunch of chicks.
-How much do you love me, baby?
THURMAN SEWELL: I love you so much.
CHRIS NIERATKO: What's going on back there?
MS. WYTE: Personally, I couldn't see
myself dating two brothers.
But you know, I guess if I were going to do that, I'd
want them to be as cool as the fucking ATL twins.
SIDNEY SEWELL: I don't know.
It was just natural that we shared girls, you know?
Honestly, we get two girls in the mix, it fucks things up,
to be honest with you.
So we prefer girls to be one girl.
THURMAN SEWELL: I know what you want to hear.
-That's so wrong.
CHRIS NIERATKO: What's the attraction for women?
It takes a special kind of woman to want to fuck two
dudes at the same time.
SIDNEY SEWELL: They all say they would never do it.
THURMAN SEWELL: I would never do that.
SIDNEY SEWELL: They do it, trust me.
THURMAN SEWELL: Because we do have big-ass dicks, bro.
SIDNEY SEWELL: We peak at 9, 18 combined.
Like the best thing, to me, about fucking bitches is like
the hunt of the whole thing.
THURMAN SEWELL: It's like an addiction, man.
SIDNEY SEWELL: It's like drugs, you know?
-Yeah, I'm coming.
I gotta go.
THURMAN SEWELL: We are good guys.
We're just jaded on girls.
SIDNEY SEWELL: You understand, we've been so jaded on girls
because every girl, every serious relationship-- we've
had quite a few relationships, and been really in love, and
they always break our hearts.
We're to the point now, we're like, fuck it.
You know what I'm saying?
THURMAN SEWELL: That's it.
SIDNEY SEWELL: All right, this is the girl.
THURMAN SEWELL: Have you met her before?
Her stage name's Michelle.
We met her at a strip clubs.
CHRIS NIERATKO: Oh, she's a stripper.
THURMAN SEWELL: Yeah but she only worked there for a week.
And we met her at the last 15 minutes of a Saturday night
shift and got her back to our crib, blah blah blah, fell in
love with her.
She moved in with us the next day, quit her job.
We ended up getting really serious with her, and getting
her back with her parents.
She'd run away from her parents.
Her parents are super conservative,
and blah blah blah.
But like I said, they thought that she was with him.
They thought I was some weirdo who couldn't get a girl, and
they were like--
SIDNEY SEWELL: So we never split up.
So he'd always be around.
THURMAN SEWELL: I'd always be around, but I'd be, like,
standoffish.
I wouldn't be all up on her.
And we'd stay the night and shit.
It was crazy.
They knew we were really about her, their daughter.
And we looked out for her, you understand?
SIDNEY SEWELL: After that, she started bugging us to go back
to school, and this and that.
And all we wanted to do was skate, and she didn't
understand that.
CHRIS NIERATKO: You guys were engaged for five years.
What happened?
THURMAN SEWELL: Eventually one day, she just fucking left.
And we were heartbroken, but whatever.
The curse is, a beautiful girl that's super into us, how she
didn't go to her rich parents and say, hey, I'm marrying
these guys.
Or I'm with these guys.
No.
SIDNEY SEWELL: We want kids, you know what I mean?
Of course.
We hold our last name.
It's up to us to keep our legacy going.
THURMAN SEWELL: But it's gotta be the right
chick, and you know--
CHRIS NIERATKO: You don't think that
would fuck a kid up?
SIDNEY SEWELL: If their dad comes to pick them up, we're
not going to both go show up there and be like, hey, we're
both the dads.
I mean, there's certain things you just don't tell people.
And it's always been like that when we're in relationships.
Like, girls--
THURMAN SEWELL: Society doesn't work.
I tell the girl, don't tell them you're with twins.
No.
SIDNEY SEWELL: They're going to look at you
like you're a nut.
You can say whatever you want to.
Fuck society.
THURMAN SEWELL: Fuck society.
Who gives a shit?
SIDNEY SEWELL: Why play by their rules?
THURMAN SEWELL: Who cares?
Why?
SIDNEY SEWELL: We don't have to.
THURMAN SEWELL: Because of what somebody thinks?
Fuck them.
When we were kids, we would fuck with hookers.
It was so sketchy.
You'd be outside, and these fucking creepos would come up,
you need a ride?
CHRIS NIERATKO: Really?
THURMAN SEWELL: People have tried to kidnap us before.