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cinema feature child's play stack chats with director william brent bell and the cast words gill pringle there are few actresses who can portray that role 15 years later in a prequel no less! just ten years old when she began shooting her breakout role as esther in the 2009 fuhrman is now 25 and making her stunning not that she was remotely in consideration when director william brent bell was hired to make this prequel of jaume collet-serra's thriller about an adopted nine-year-old girl who is not quite as innocent as she appears had something to do with this unlikely turn of tides make sure we're making a movie that's for without just treading on the same waters as the and still is." september 2022 mulling over who might play esther when the fuhrman to reach out to bell "isabelle contacted me through instagram excited that you guys are doing the movie"," he tells stack scaled up from when she was a child but with such tiny hands and i'm really passionate about it." ask bell if he thought fuhrman was crazy for imagining she could recreate she had a lot of courage to put a character that she created on the line and put herself out there like that - and trusted me to do it visit stack.com.au that allowed everybody else to believe it," he says of the 5' 4" actress who used child body doubles and ingenious methods to convey child- like proportions with julia stiles portraying esther's first fuhrman totally owned the role "i don't think it could have been made see her performance and how she's completely have been as interesting or as satisfying "even though brent was getting threatened watch." fuhrman admits she was never going to sit quietly and let someone else play the role she originated "so it was really fun for me to revisit esther we captured some love for esther; that the audience would find places to root for her and beloved character after the original movie came like esther and make her more human this time julia stiles jbhifi.com.au jb hi-fi