The lore of why Emerald Fennell decided to adapt “Wuthering Heights” for the big screen is almost as well-worn as the copy of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel that the Oscar-winning filmmaker has read a hundred times. Fennell discovered the classic tome when she was a teenager — 14 years old to be exact — and became engrossed with its lead characters, Cathy and Heathcliff, and their toxic love story.
“Like anyone who’s obsessed with ‘Wuthering Heights,’ I’m a fanatic. I just adore it,” Fennell told Variety at the film’s world premiere in Los Angeles. “The moment I read it, it just broke me open.”
Decades later, as she started to think about her next film following a pair of provocative pictures, 2023’s “Saltburn” and 2020’s “Promising Young Woman,” an idea sparked. “I wanted to make something that made people feel, that made people physically respond,” Fennell explained. “I just went back to that book,…
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