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Margot Robbie in red latex, Kate Bush impersonators and a pint of Emily ale: my crash course in Brontëmania

As Wuthering Heights gets a raunchy Hollywood remake, our writer takes a pilgrimage through Haworth, the village where its author lived – and finds her spirit still electrifying the cobbled streets and windswept moors

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Margot Robbie on the backlash to her casting in Wuthering Heights: 'I get it'

Margot Robbie has urged people not to judge a book by its cover when it comes to their casting as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.

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Margot Robbie Has Seen Your Wuthering Heights Casting Backlash

She knows what people are saying.

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Margot Robbie defends Jacob Elordi’s Wuthering Heights casting: ‘Trust me, you’ll be happy’

‘I saw him play Heathcliff. And he is Heathcliff,’ says Barbie star

The Independent UK

Margot Robbie defends Jacob Elordi's casting in Wuthering Heights

Margot Robbie has defended Jacob Elordi's casting in Wuthering Heights - declaring the actor "is Heathcliff" and adding: "Trust me, you’ll be happy".

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Margot Robbie will 'protect' her son from the spotlight

Barbie star Margot Robbie intends to keep her 14-month-old son out of the limelight after being "burnt" when speaking freely about her personal life in the past.

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Margot Robbie praises Jacob Elordi as ‘our generation’s Daniel Day-Lewis’

The Barbie actress, 35, appears alongside Elordi, 28, in Emerald Fennell’s upcoming adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.

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Watch full trailer for Wuthering Heights starring Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie

Watch the full trailer for Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.

The Independent UK

Wuthering Heights Trailer Raises Even More Questions About The Controversial Adaptation

“This looks good until you remember it’s supposed to be a Wuthering Heights adaptation.”

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Margot Robbie's Cathy and Jacob Elordi's Heathcliff drive each other mad in moody new trailer for Saltburn director's Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy, I'm coming to theaters

Total Film

I’m still not convinced ‘Wuthering Heights’ is a straight forward adaptation but this new trailer…is kinda hot

When he grabs her corset?!

The Mary Sue

Spare us from romcom Austen. Give me the dark side of 19th-century life any day

Why sanitise or sugarcoat the classics? New adaptations of Austen and Brontë could explore everything from slavery to death in childbirth, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Austen and Brontë adaptations: purists may reel, but reinvention keeps classic novels alive

Editorial: The appetite for onscreen versions of much-loved literature is endless, but dogged faithfulness to a text is not the only way to stay true to authors’ spirit

The Guardian - UK

“Horrendous And Insulting”: Backlash Erupts Over “Misrepresentation” In 2026 Wuthering Heights

Experts weigh in on the 2026 ‘Wuthering Heights’ trailer, which faced intense backlash for whitewashing and a “modernisation” that many critics deemed a “misrepresentation.”

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Why Jacob Elordi Got Cast In Wuthering Heights, Despite Some Fan Backlash: 'Very Surprising'

The real reason why Jacob Elordi is Heathcliff.

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Emerald Fennell wanted 'primal, sexual' Wuthering Heights

Emerald Fennell wanted to make a "primal, sexual" version of Wuthering Heights that her 14-year-old self could connect to after becoming deeply connected to the story from the first time she read it.

The Guardian - UK

‘There’s an enormous amount of sado-masochism in this book’: Emerald Fennell defends her Wuthering Heights adaptation

At the Brontë Women’s Writing festival, the Saltburn director explained her decision to cast Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in her sex-charged retelling of Emily Brontë’s novel

Woman & Home

Adolescence won big at the Emmys, but it's Owen Cooper who'll go down in history

It was a huge night for Adolescence at the Emmys, although Owen Cooper now holds a very special accolade following his win

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Margot Robbie And Jacob Elordi's Wuthering Heights Movie Is Already Getting Backlash For Being 'Whitewashed'

"...horrendous & insulting to the source material."

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“50 Shades Of 1800s”: Margot Robbie And Jacob Elordi “Wuthering Heights” Teaser Divides Internet

"This is not what I read in high school," one viewer quipped after watching the trailer’s suggestive scenes.

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Too sexy or erotic? Why everyone is so shocked about the ‘Wuthering Heights’ trailer

Literary betrayal? Whitewashing? Too gratuitous? Soft porn for ticket sales? The trailer for Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 classic has received quite a bit of backlash. Here's why.

The Mary Sue

Alright so why is “Wuthering Heights” in quotes, Emerald?!

I see those quotes...

International Business Times UK

'Erotic' Wuthering Heights Shocks Viewers: How Margot Robbie's Role and a Surprising Synopsis Are Rewriting the Gothic Love Story

The first trailer of Wuthering Heights reveals Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in a provocative reimagining of Emily Brontë's Gothic classic.

TechRadar

Everything is romantic in the official Wuthering Heights trailer, but I bet you’ve missed the obvious clue that things are about to change

I'm so bored of the Wuthering Heights trailer drama online – Emerald Fennell has already proved we don't know what's coming.

The Independent UK

Wuthering Heights fans slam first trailer for controversial adaptation: ‘Visually pretty but hollow’

Film set for theatrical release in February 2026

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