{"id":306863,"date":"2026-02-19T21:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306863\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:57:15","slug":"tanya-sweeney-the-wuthering-heights-backlash-is-not-about-the-movie-but-the-woman-who-made-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/306863\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Sweeney: The \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019 backlash is not about the movie \u2013 but the woman who made it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">When a woman directs boldly, it\u2019s trashy. When a man does, it\u2019s visionary\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emerald Fennell was \u2018consumed\u2019 by the book as a teenager. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/f0f2f20a-0580-44b5-a65c-5e7b4e7f3a64.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Emerald Fennell was \u2018consumed\u2019 by the book as a teenager. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The very minute the cast for Emerald Fennell\u2019s adaptation of Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s Wuthering Heights was announced, the naysayers threw in their tuppence worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Margot Robbie, at 35, was too old to play Cathy; Jacob Elordi not \u201cthe right race\u201d to play Heathcliff. Production stills showed the characters in costume and Fennell\u2019s critics were quick to brandish accusations of historical inaccuracy and almost aggressive modernness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When a woman directs boldly, it\u2019s trashy. When a man does, it\u2019s visionary Emerald Fennell was \u2018consumed\u2019 by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,12271],"class_list":["post-306863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tanya-sweeney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}