Jacob Elordi to Star in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights

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It seems altogether likely that when Kate Bush was so inspired by Emily Brontë’s gothic masterpiece Wuthering Heights that she wrote her own haunting masterpiece of a response song, what she was imagining was a giant slab of Australian man meat. Or does it? Jacob Elordi will play Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s upcoming adaptation of Wuthering Heights, and not everybody thinks this is bathtub-lickin’ good casting. “In both Euphoria and Saltburn, Elordi’s good at vacancy, and I just can’t see the depths of Heathcliff’s emotions, insanity, cruelty, and love-as-obsession in him,” our critic Roxana Hadadi says. Alternately, writer Rose Dommu tweeted, “I’m going to walk into traffic.” Same vibe.

He is joined by fellow Australian Margot Robbie, who will be playing Catherine in the film. If we thought Emerald Fennell could pass up an opportunity to set a movie in an English castle, we’d think that this adaptation was going to be set in Australia. “G’day, mate,” Heathcliff would say in that version. The film will be produced by LuckyChap, Margot Robbie’s production company, which also produced Fennell’s Saltburn and Promising Young Woman. At least we all already know why Bowen Yang hasn’t been cast in it yet …