Though we know Esther's secret from the beginning in First Kill, the film - conceived by original Orphan writers David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Alex Mace, and scripted by David Coggeshall - makes plenty of space for twists of its own, many of them centered on the unexpected dynamics within the Albright family. She hates being in this dress, she hates wearing pigtails, but she feels like she has to do it because she's trying to fit a part. And this time we get to see these things. We didn't get to see her drink vodka or practice her voice in the first film, because we didn't know she was faking. "We kind of tickled that at the beginning and then we kind of brought it back towards the end, but it was important for me that we get to see a new side to her. "That was kind of the fun, that anticipation of waiting for her to snap, and become a bit more of the character you saw in the first film," director William Brent Bell ( The Boy) said. We know from the original film that this story doesn't end well, but we don't know how things go to that point, and First Kill sets out to tell us that story while also giving us insights into how Leena became Esther. In First Kill, we get to see firsthand how Leena became Esther, escaping from a mental facility in Estonia and then concocting a scheme to impersonate the missing daughter of an American couple (Julia Stiles and Rossif Sutherland). "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. Significantly strong for her size and has great stealth and sneaking prowess.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. Powers: No supernatural powers but highly intelligent and manipulative. After an attempted blackmailing and a cover-up involving the murder of the real Esther Albright, the Albrights were all killed and Esther got into a new adoption agency, where she ended up with the Coleman family. She managed to escape by seducing a guard and killing a nurse and posed as the lost daughter of the wealthy American Albright family, Esther Albright. She killed the entire Sullivan family, which landed her in the Saarne Institute, where she was wild and violent. She posed multiple times as a young girl to get adopted by families and then trying to seduce the husband and kill the wife of the family and killing everyone if that failed. Origins: Leena Klammer was born with a hypopituitary disorder that keeps her looking like a 9-year-old girl.
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