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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.

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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

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

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

It's certainly unexpected

Marie Claire

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

Evening Standard

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.

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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

Total Film

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

The Independent UK

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 Independent 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 Guardian - 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

The Independent UK

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.

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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

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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

The Independent UK

The 40 best novels to read before you die OLD

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 Canberra Times

We can all be Kate Bush in July

Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy.

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The Guardian - UK

West Indies v England: third Test, day three – as it happened

Joshua Da Silva’s century and Kyle Mayers’ five-for left England facing a humiliating defeat in Grenada

The Independent UK

Bridgerton: Jonathan Bailey looked to ‘toxic’ men like Mr Darcy and Heathcliff for inspiration on season 2

Oldest Bridgerton brother is focus of new season

The Guardian - UK

‘You were my Heathcliff’: Isobel Campbell pays tribute to collaborator Mark Lanegan

The former Belle and Sebastian star made three albums with Lanegan, who died this week. Here, she recalls his ‘mystical air’, his sense of humour and his generosity

Evening Standard

Wuthering Heights review: Brontë adaptation brings joy to the National Theatre

Emma Rice’s exuberant version of this doomed moorland romance is a full-throated pleasure to watch

The Independent UK

Wuthering Heights review: A blustering and boisterous production

With her National Theatre production, Emma Rice does a fairly remarkable job in making the text as lucid as it is, even if depth of character is sacrificed for breadth of narrative

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