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Wuthering Heights Casting Director Defends Choosing Aussies Jacob Elordi & Margot Robbie

Wuthering Heights’ casting director defends picking Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi for the lead roles, telling critics “it’s just a book”.

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‘It’s just a book’: Wuthering Heights casting director defends choice of Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi

Kharmel Cochrane responded to criticism of both actors’ ages and of Elordi’s ethnicity being unfaithful to Emily Brontë’s novel, saying ‘wait until you see the set design’

The Guardian - UK

Wuthering Heights casting director says ‘English Lit fans not going to be happy’

Kharmel Cochrane says set design is ‘even more shocking’

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Jacob Elordi found Adolescence star Owen Cooper 'intimidating' on set of new Wuthering Heights adaptation

The Hollywood star also praised the youngster as a ‘tremendous actor’

Evening Standard

Critics are tearing into the Beatles biopics already. Here’s why they should let it be

The casting of new Fab Four movies and Wuthering Heights has been slammed before filming even finishes. Can’t we just wait and see?

The Guardian - UK

“Just Ruined My Entire Week”: Fans Rip Into Margot Robbie’s Wuthering Heights Costume

"They need to recast ASAP" The post “Just Ruined My Entire Week”: Fans Rip Into Margot Robbie’s Wuthering Heights Costume first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Jacob Elordi goes full Heathcliff on the red carpet with his bold new Brontë look

Jacob Elordi is once again breaking the boundaries of what we can be attractive. And this time — it’s mutton chops

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Wuthering Heights gets 2026 release date

Emerald Fennell’s 'Wuthering Heights' - starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - will be released in 2026

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Jacob Elordi’s Bulge Goes Viral As He Lays Next To Girlfriend Olivia Jade In Swim Trunks

Jacob Elordi's bulge goes viral as he vacations with Olivia Jade. The post Jacob Elordi’s Bulge Goes Viral As He Lays Next To Girlfriend Olivia Jade In Swim Trunks first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Wuthering Heights casting row: most adaptations struggle with picking the right Heathcliff and Cathy, but we deserve better in 2024

How do you cast Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel about a child so brutalised by his adoptive family that he drives his pregnant love to death? Not, it would seem, like Emerald Fennell, the latest director to attempt it.

The Conversation

In defence of Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff

The decision to cast Margot Robbie as Cathy is silly: but Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff is actually inspired

Evening Standard

‘An impossible passion’: cinema’s long love affair with Wuthering Heights

Saltburn director Emerald Fennell has caused a stir with her project to remake Brontë’s classic – but the novel has been provocative for more than 170 years

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: sausage surrealism and a bowlful of Doom Loops

Plus, a Brooklyn prison odd-couple comedy, an accent challenge for two Australians, and alpaca cuts hit the US

The Guardian - UK

People are very torn over the Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi Wuthering Heights casting

It's certainly unexpected

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Wuthering Heights: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi's casting has not pleased fans

Fans of Emily Bronte’s classic novel have asked whether the filmmakers have even read the book

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Margot Robbie & Jacob Elordi Will Star In A New Wuthering Heights Film & Fans Are… Concerned

Aussie actors Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie have both been announced to star in Emerld Fennell's upcoming Wuthering Heights adaptation.

Total Film

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to star in Wuthering Heights adaptation from Saltburn director

Robbie and Elordi will star as Catherine and Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell's adaptation

The Independent UK

Emerald Fennell teases Emily Brontë adaptation with same team behind Saltburn

Fennell is the latest director to take on Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s tormented romance

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40 best books to read before you die, from Great Expectations to Wolf Hall

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: Bernard Herrmann meets Emily Brontë; Keith Jarrett plays CPE Bach

A Wuthering Heights opera by the man who scored Psycho and The Birds is well worth a listen, while the American piano great makes CPE his own

The Independent UK

40 best books to read before you die, from Wolf Hall to Wuthering Heights

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

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Emma Mackey brings Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë boldly to life in Frances O'Connor's directorial debut

This creative departure from the biopic genre by Australian actor-turned director Frances O’Connor reframes parts of the author's life and inspirations that have long eluded biographers.

The Guardian - UK

Emily review – the wildest Brontë sister is set free in full-blooded gothic fable

The author of Wuthering Heights is no sickly recluse in actor turned director Frances O’Connor’s sensuous, spine-tingling feature debut

The Conversation

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë and the truth about the 'real-life Heathcliff'

When Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, outraged Victorian critics deemed it savage, indecent and immoral. One described it as “a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors”.

The Independent UK

40 best books to read before you die, from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

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