{"id":598805,"date":"2026-05-22T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598805\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:56:08","slug":"wuthering-heights-director-regrets-not-showing-margot-robbies-extremely-hairy-armpits-emerald-fennell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598805\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuthering Heights director regrets not showing Margot Robbie\u2019s \u2018extremely hairy armpits\u2019 | Emerald Fennell"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wuthering Heights<\/a> director Emerald Fennell said it was \u201cunfortunate\u201d that a scene showing Margot Robbie\u2019s hairy armpits did not make the final cut, because women in period adaptations are often shown with clean-shaven underarms.<\/p>\n

Robbie\u2019s character, Cathy, had \u201cextremely hairy armpits\u201d in the 2026 adaptation of the novel, but \u201cunfortunately the scene that we see them didn\u2019t make it in there\u201d, said the director.<\/p>\n

Cathy having unshaven pits \u201cwas so important to me\u201d, she said, adding that she often wonders \u201cwhere are the razors that these women are using?\u201d when watching Jane Austen adaptations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re all kind of hairless like eels. I\u2019m like: \u2018What\u2019s going on? It\u2019s completely mad.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Fennell spoke to an audience at Hay festival<\/a> in Wales on Friday evening. Her sexed-up adaptation of Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s gothic novel, starring Robbie alongside Jacob Elordi, was released on Valentine\u2019s Day this year.<\/p>\n

Emerald Fennell in 2020. She also told the Hay festival audience about Wuthering Heights\u2019 \u2018skin room\u2019 and \u2018fish scene\u2019. Photograph: Taylor Jewell\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n

Fennell described it as a \u201csister, not a twin\u201d of the book, saying that she \u201ccouldn\u2019t make\u201d the original. \u201cIt\u2019s so brilliant,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Asked about the infamous \u201cskin room\u201d \u2013 Cathy\u2019s husband, Edgar Linton, gives her bedroom a bespoke design with walls that resemble her skin \u2013 Fennell joked that in marketing meetings the team considered asking Farrow & Ball to make a Cathy\u2019s skin themed colour.<\/p>\n

They also asked Robbie to send close-up images of the underside of her wrist in order to reproduce her veins on the walls.<\/p>\n

Fennell also spoke about the much-discussed \u201cfish scene\u201d<\/a>, in which Cathy sticks her finger into a dead fish\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw a fish in aspic and I thought: \u2018I want to stick my finger in its mouth.\u2019 And then I was like, \u2018Well, I think if you were trapped, and you were extremely sexually frustrated, the first thing you\u2019d do is \u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had all of the different fish, we had fish with lipstick on, we had real fish, fake fish, in the end that was a real fish. But poor Margot. I mean she had to do that. There were 12 of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

On her directorial approach, Fennell said that \u201cbeing embarrassing, being cringe\u201d is a \u201creally big thing\u201d for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially now in our culture, we are so phobic and terrified of being cringe, or being earnest, and so we\u2019ve got this deadening ambivalence about everything, and I feel, for me, I want to get in and go for it, and push it off a cliff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fennell said she is taking time off from film-making to make jigsaw puzzles, see her family, disconnect from the internet and read Sarah J Maas novels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019m coming up secretly with something so depraved, so profoundly evil, that nobody\u2019s going to make it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wuthering Heights director Emerald Fennell said it was \u201cunfortunate\u201d that a scene showing Margot Robbie\u2019s hairy armpits…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}