![]() ![]() ![]() "So to go back and read my 10-year-old notes was actually the most informative for me, because it very quickly made me realize that the choices that I made when I was a kid on how to play Esther, while being 23 looking over them, I was going, 'I don't know if I would've made the same decision as a woman to play it that way.' But I realized that that was the Esther that everyone fell in love with, and I needed to find a way to marry the two versions of who I was, as a woman now playing Esther, and creating this character of Esther throughout the movie."Įsther is indeed a character, a cherubic child birthed from the mind of Leena Klammer, the adult woman behind the little girl persona we met in the original Orphan. "I actually really spent most of my time with the original Orphan script, because I had taken so many notes as I worked on that movie the first time when I was 10," Fuhrman told SYFY WIRE. With First Kill, which hits Paramount+ this Friday, Fuhrman had to transport herself back to the character, which meant re-examining choices that she made as a very, very young actress more than a decade ago. ![]() Her age at the time, and her ability to play Esther's inherent darkness, helped facilitate the now-famous twist that Esther is not a little girl, but a woman in her 30s with a genetic disorder that makes her look like a child. How do you make a prequel about a character who looks like a 10-year-old girl when more than a decade has passed since the original film, and the actor playing that character is now a 25-year-old woman? That's the central challenge that came with Orphan: First Kill, the follow-up to 2009's Orphan, in which Isabelle Fuhrman returns to show us the origins of the terrifying Esther Albright.įuhrman was only 10 years old when she first played Esther, an orphan who's adopted by a loving family reeling from a terrible loss in Jaume Collet-Serra's original film. ![]()
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