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Orion Mendelson is the titular protagonist in the DreamWorksNetflix film, Orion and the Dark.

Background[]

Official Description[]

Orion is an elementary school boy driven by anxiety and is scared of everything, but his biggest fear is the dark.[1]

Personality[]

Orion is an 11-year old kid known to be a afraid of everything that is candid. He is afraid of girls in general, being responsible for his team losing, getting the wrong answers in class. However, the one thing that he is afraid of is the dark. He always gets concerned about the dangers that may happen but never checked it.

He is very intelligent, and while he's kind and considerate, he tends to overthink everything.

Physical Appearance[]

Orion has brown hair and pale skin. He wears a collared shirt.

Trivia[]

  • Orion might be ethnically Jewish, though there's little to confirm it apart from his Germanic surname. Charlie Kaufman, who wrote Orion and the Dark for the screen, is himself of Jewish descent.
  • His childhood home is suggested to be in Queens.
  • He reads David Foster Wallace books as a hobby.

External links[]

References[]

  1. "Orion and the Dark Voice Cast Guide". Screenrant. Retrieved on February 5, 2024.

Navigation[]

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Media
Films: Orion and the Dark

Cast: Jacob Tremblay (Orion) • Paul Walter Hauser (Dark)

Characters
Main Characters: Orion MendelsonDarkHypatia

Night Entities: SleepQuietInsomniaUnexplained NoisesSweet Dreams
Day Entities: Light