Jacob Elordi says filming Wuthering Heights with Margot Robbie became so immersive that the actors felt they were living inside Emily Brontë’s 177-year-old love story.
At a Glance
- Elordi and Robbie portray Heathcliff and Catherine in Emerald Fennell’s adaptation.
- The pair filmed on the English moors where they “really were a part of their love, for real.”
- The movie opens February 13, just ahead of Valentine’s Day.
- Why it matters: Fans finally see the couple’s doomed romance on screen after the novel only hints at their happiest moments.
Elordi, 28, told Fandango in a January 14 interview that off-camera walks across the windswept landscape blurred the line between actor and character.
“There’d be a moment where we’d be running hand-in-hand through the moors, maybe not even in the scene, just setting it up, where I’d look across at her and she’d be looking at me and you really realized you are looking at Catherine and she was looking at Heathcliff,” he said.
The sensation, he added, felt like “catching little pieces of that unrequited love” Brontë first published in 1847.
Director Emerald Fennell, 40, has promised a version that is “primal [and] sexual,” a description Elordi echoed when describing the on-set atmosphere.
Key moments that transported the cast:
- Listening to Kate Bush while watching the sunset on location.
- Rehearsing scenes in full costume on the actual moors.
- Feeling “the spirit of this love… floating around there,” Elordi said.
Robbie, 35, produces and stars as Catherine, while Elordi embodies Heathcliff, the orphaned boy who bonds with Catherine as children yet is kept apart by class divides.
Elordi emphasized that Fennell’s script finally lets audiences witness the couple’s rare happiness.
“The moments when it was good and the love was alive were really sort of pleasurable moments to actually see, because in the book you don’t see them together,” he noted.
The Warner Bros. release also features:
- Hong Chau
- Shazad Latif
- Alison Oliver
- Martin Clunes
- Ewan Mitchell
News Of Los Angeles previously reported that the film was shot across Yorkshire’s remote moorland, the same terrain Brontë described in her Gothic classic.
Elordi summarized the experience: “To actually confirm that love in our version of the narrative and to see it lived through was a pretty profound experience.”
The finished movie arrives in theaters February 13, positioning the tragic romance as a Valentine’s Day option for audiences ready for a darker take on passion.
