Though Jacob Elordi was able to get pleasure from a hiatus from Hollywood, Emerald Fennell pulled him again in.
The Wuthering Heights star not too long ago defined how the Saltburn writer-director satisfied him to tackle the function of romantic antihero Heathcliff in her upcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel.
“I used to be actually fortunate,” he instructed IndieWire. “I used to be going to take a break for some time, after which Emerald simply very merely texted me, and you may’t run from that textual content.”
Elordi additionally raved that his co-star Margot Robbie, who performs his beloved Catherine Earnshaw, is “unbelievable within the movie, she’s a livewire. I’m so, so excited for folks to see it. She’s a phenomenal actor and he or she gave so, a lot.”
Final September, Deadline completely introduced that Elordi and Robbie have been tapped to star in Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, from MRC and LuckyChap. Warner Bros Movement Footage Group has since received distribution rights in a bidding battle, setting the romance for a Feb. 13, 2026 premiere.
Fennell—who serves as author, director and producer on the variation, which has been filming within the UK—beforehand confronted backlash for casting a white actor as Heathcliff, who’s described within the ebook as a “dark-skinned gipsy.”
Wuthering Heights is taken into account by many to be one of many nice items of literature when it was printed in 1847. The unique story follows two households, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and the turbulent relationship they’ve with the Earnshaws’ foster son, Heathcliff.
