Inside the Bizarre, Campy Brilliance of ‘Orphan: First Kill’

‘I’M NOT ACTUALLY SCARY’

Original “Orphan” star Isabelle Fuhrman tells The Daily Beast what it’s like to play a 30-year-old posing as a child—the role that first made her famous at age 12.

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The central conceit of Orphan: First Kill is so absurd as to (almost) defy coherent explanation: Isabelle Fuhrman, who rose to fame when she was 12 in 2009’s Orphan (in which she played Esther, a violent 33-year-old woman with a hormonal disorder who poses as a child) now reprises the...

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