Orphan prequel will feature an adult woman playing a murderous child, CGI free
Araya Doheny/Getty Images Isabelle Fuhrman's performance as Esther in Paramount Pictures' first Orphan film stunned audiences in no small part because of what the movie's disturbing twist revealed about its titular child murderer. Twelve years later, Fuhrman is set to reprise her role in Paramount's upcoming prequel Orphan: First Kill from director William Brent Bell, and the 24-year-old actress is certain that she's about to shock everyone once again.
In the original Orphan's final acts, it's revealed that nine-year-old Esther" is actually a 33-year-old Estonian serial killer with proportional dwarfism caused by hypopituitarism, which she's used to pretend to be a child for years as she bounces from one adoptive family to the next. Fuhrman, who was 12 when O...