The Nun
Summary
Perhaps the biggest mystery ofThe Nunis the potential connexion between Sister Irene and Lorraine Warren , who is played by Vera Farmiga . Directed by Corin Hardy , The Nunis a spinoff from the Conjuring Universe , and star Vera ’s younger sister Taissa Farmiga as Sister Irene , a conical buoy who is enter to investigate a mysterious demise at a distant convent in Romania . The NunandThe Conjuringare set up about 20 years apart , and there ’s a 21 - class age opening between the sister , who expect a strong home resemblance .
The Nunis also bookended with scenesof Lorraine Warren , with the end of the film cutting direct from Irene in 1952 to Lorraine in 1971 - only serving to highlight how similar the two lead actresses await . However , the only explicit link between the two part in the movie is the fact that they both fight the fiend Valak , and they both encounter Frenchie ( Jonas Bloquet ) , a Gallic - Canadian farmer who is possessed by Valak at the end ofThe Nun . It seemed like a bizarre decision to cast Taissa Farmiga inThe Nunand specifically draw attending to her resemblance to Vera Farmiga unless Sister Irene and Lorraine Warren were actually the same person .
Is Sister Irene A Young Lorraine Warren?
Those who sawThe Nunwithout having view any ofthe otherConjuringmoviescould be forgiven for assume that Lorraine Warren is Sister Irene a couple of ten later , given the strong likeness between the two actresses . Even beyond that , there are great deal of parallels . Both Irene and Lorraine talk of the town about receive religious visions from an early age ( Irene being told " Mary points the mode , " and Lorraine recalling that as a shaver she saw an Angel Falls by a little boy ’s bedside in the hospital ) . Both Irene and Lorraine are American and must have been bear at around the same time . Both character are devoutly Christian and tangled with Valak .
That last particular is a bit of a sticking point because , inThe Conjuring 2 , Lorraine micturate no reference to Irene ’s experiences at the Abbey of St. Carta in Romania . She has a vision of the demonic nun at the start of the plastic film and is later vex to find her husband , Ed , paint a characterisation of it . However , in neither case does she mention having fought the demon before , and she does n’t recognize the daemon ’s name despiteFather Burke ( Demián Bichir ) discovering it inThe Nun . However , when Lorraine realizes she wrote the demon ’s name in her Bible and twitch through the pages to find it , she immediately recognizes the name " Valak . "
Moreover , when she uses it to eject the demon , she seems to know an awful lot about it:“Your name gives me dominion over you , devil . And I do fuck your name . You are Valak , the polluter , the profane , the Marquis of Snakes . “This lends exercising weight to the theory that Sister Irene and Lorraine Warren are the same person , but there ’s another explanation . At the ending ofThe Nun , Ed and Lorraine were at Frenchie ’s dispossession and knew he had become possessed 20 years earlier . Since Father Burke survived , he would have delivered a full report to the Vatican , including the demon ’s name - so the Warrens could have take Valek ’s name that direction .
There is another fault in the theory that Sister Irene and Lorraine Warren are the same person . For much of the movie , Sister Irene is still a novice and has n’t taken the vows to become a nun . However , she decides to take her vows before the last battle with Valak , her faith hardened by encounter well-defined evidence of the existence of Hell . InThe Conjuring , Lorraine is matrimonial to Ed Warren and has a girl , which contradicts Irene becoming a Bride of Christ - peculiarly since Ed and Lorraine founded the New England Society for Psychic Research in 1952,the same yearThe Nuntakes place . Did Irene abdicate her vows or could there be a dissimilar connection ?
Alternate Theory: Are Irene and Lorraine Sisters?
The other pop theory fromThe Nunis that Ireneand Lorraine are sisters . That would explain the strong-arm resemblance between them and the fact they both experience visions , the similarly religious bringing up , and even the fact that they were both tormented by Valak since demons are n’t above place people ’s families to exact revenge . The main problem with this theory is the fact thatThe Nunnever explicitly draws a connection between the two grapheme . As far as canon is interest so far , the similarity between Irene and Lorraine are simple coincidence .
However , this would n’t be the first time that a movie in theConjuringuniverse has held back information for unveil it in a future sequel or spinoff . NeitherThe ConjuringnorAnnabelleexplained where the Annabelle dolly originally hail from , instead leaving that account forAnnabelle : Creation . Taissa Farmiga ’s public presentation inThe Nunreceived favorable review , so it was n’t surprising when Sister Irenereturned forThe Nun 2 . Clearly , Irene did n’t throw in the towel her role as a nun buoy and get going on to become an exorcist , as she went on to dish up in a convent in Italy after the events of the first moving-picture show .
One final possibility is that Irene and Lorraine really are unrelated - neither the same somebody nor part of the same household - and that the law of similarity between them are just a coincidence . Taissa Farmiga is no stranger to the horror musical style after all , having starred inAmerican Horror StoryandThe Final Girls , and could have been cast despite her family connexion to Vera Farmiga , rather than because of it . But if that ’s the case , it was a bizarre decisiveness to remind the audience of the resemblance between the two spark advance by drop scenes from theConjuringmovies at the commencement and end ofThe Nun .
What The Nun 2 Director Says About This Theory
It turn out that the theories of Sister Irene and Lorraine Warren being relate were not only right but werealways part of the design forThe ConjuringUniverse . Their actual connection was lastly prove in the secondNunmovie , and it was something that they limit up with various speck and clew left in the first movie . The Nun 2director Michael Chaves say it was always in the plan to have them related in some way , and that was part of casting real sisters in the two roles ( viaSlash Film ) .
" I mean , I think from the beginning it was too much of a coincidence to have nearly identical sisters in the same movie . I suppose it was always part of the ultimate goal is to tie them in and I cogitate that there ’s always been a connexion . There ’s clues even in the very first ' Nun ' movie if you seem at it [ … ] people have picked out a connecter before and so the approximation of bloodline has already been in there . "
AfterThe Nun2brought back Taissa Farmiga , the kinship between Sister Irene and Lorraine Warren was finally disclose . The two are not the same person , and they might not even be sisters . However , the flick reveals thatSister Irene and Lorraine Warren are from the same blood . This was revealed when the motion-picture show explored Sister Irene ’s heritage , and it showed she is a descendant of Saint Lucy . She then has visions of citizenry in Saint Lucy ’s bloodline , and one of those people was Lorraine Warren . They might not be sisters , but they are both scion of Saint Lucy .
