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The director and star of ‘Orphan: First Kill’ on the unique challenges of the horror prequel
The director and star of 'Orphan: First Kill' on the unique challenges of the horror prequel,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.

The director and star of ‘Orphan: First Kill’ on the unique challenges of the horror prequel

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.