{"id":330962,"date":"2025-12-04T23:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330962\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T23:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:51:09","slug":"margot-robbie-defends-wuthering-heights-casting-jacob-elordi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/330962\/","title":{"rendered":"Margot Robbie Defends ‘Wuthering Heights’ Casting Jacob Elordi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMargot Robbie<\/a> is defending Emerald Fennell<\/a>\u2018s \u201cWuthering Heights<\/a>\u201d against a handful of pre-release controversies. Speaking to British Vogue for a new cover story<\/a>, the Oscar nominee stood by Fennell\u2019s decision to cast Robbie and Jacob Elordi<\/a> in the roles of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, respectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s 1847 novel \u201cWuthering Heights,\u201d Fennell\u2019s film adaptation started courting controversy the minute her casting choices were announced. Catherine is brunette and a teenager in the novel. Robbie is blonde and 35 years old. Fennell confirmed to British Vogue that she aged up Catherine for the movie to be in her late 20s and early 30s. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI get it,\u201d Robbie said about the backlash over the film\u2019s casting. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing else to go off at this point until people see the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tElordi\u2019s casting as Heathcliff drew even more outrage online since the character is described as\u00a0\u201cdark-skinned\u201d in Bront\u00eb\u2019s novel. But it was Elordi who first inspired Fennell to adapt \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d after she saw him with sideburns on the set of their last movie, \u201cSaltburn,\u201d and thought: \u201cOh my God, it\u2019s the Heathcliff on the cover of the book that I\u2019ve had since I was a teenager.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI saw him play Heathcliff. And he is Heathcliff. I\u2019d say, just wait. Trust me, you\u2019ll be happy,\u201d Robbie said about Elordi\u2019s controversial casting. \u201cIt\u2019s a character that has this lineage of other great actors who\u2019ve played him, from Laurence Olivier to Richard Burton and Ralph Fiennes to Tom Hardy. To be a part of that is special. He\u2019s incredible and I believe in him so much. I honestly think he\u2019s our generation\u2019s Daniel Day-Lewis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFennell passionately defended casting Robbie as Catherine \u2014 even if her hair color and age don\u2019t exactly match the novel.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCathy is a star,\u201d the director explained. \u201cShe\u2019s willful, mean, a recreational sadist, a provocateur. She engages in cruelty in a way that is disturbing and fascinating. It was about finding someone who you would forgive in spite of yourself, someone who literally everyone in the world would understand why you love her. It\u2019s difficult to find that supersized star power. Margot comes with big dick energy. That\u2019s what Cathy needs.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tRobbie and Fennell\u2019s \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d has also drawn fan outrage over the movie\u2019s marketing, which has been sexy, sweaty and erotic to say the least. The first image released from the movie featured a close-up of a finger in Robbie\u2019s mouth, for instance.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEveryone\u2019s expecting this to be very, very raunchy. I think people will be surprised. Not to say there aren\u2019t sexual elements and that it\u2019s not provocative \u2013 it definitely is provocative \u2013 but it\u2019s more romantic than provocative,\u201d Robbie told worried readers. \u201cThis is a big epic romance. It\u2019s just been so long since we\u2019ve had one \u2013 maybe\u00a0\u2018The Notebook,\u2019 also\u00a0\u2018The English Patient.\u2019 You have to go back decades. It\u2019s that feeling when your chest swells or it\u2019s like someone\u2019s punched you in the guts and the air leaves your body. That\u2019s a signature of Emerald\u2019s. Whether it\u2019s titillating or repulsion, her superpower is eliciting a physical response.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWuthering Heights\u201d opens in theaters Feb. 13 from Warner Bros. Head over to British Vogue\u2019s website <\/a>to read Robbie\u2019s cover story in its entirety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Margot Robbie is defending Emerald Fennell\u2018s \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d against a handful of pre-release controversies. Speaking to British Vogue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[83603,88,34564,39919,82685],"class_list":{"0":"post-330962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-emerald-fennell","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jacob-elordi","11":"tag-margot-robbie","12":"tag-wuthering-heights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}