{"id":2258104,"date":"2026-01-30T15:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2258104"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:14:38","slug":"jacob-elordi-suffered-second-degree-burns-after-bizarre-wuthering-heights-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jacob-elordi-suffered-second-degree-burns-after-bizarre-wuthering-heights-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Elordi suffered second-degree burns after bizarre &#8216;Wuthering Heights&#8217; incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jacob Elordi was feeling less than euphoric. <\/p>\n<p>The star recounted a harrowing on-set experience while shooting \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething peculiar that happened while we were filming was when Si\u00e2n [Miller], the make-up artist, was designing the scars from the whips for Heathcliff\u2019s back,\u201d Elordi told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/uk\/culture\/film\/a70155779\/jacob-elordi-interview-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esquire<\/a> in an interview published on Friday. \u201cShe challenged me: \u2018If Daniel Day-Lewis was playing Heathcliff, he would have come in with scars.&#8217;\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"38335375\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.84837545;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38335375\" width=\"1024\" height=\"554\" 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competition in the Australian actor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Well I\u2019m going to go away and maim myself on the weekend to prove to you that I\u2019m Heathcliff!\u2019 That night I went home, and the house I was staying in had a steam shower: a brass knob that steam came from out of the wall; I was sitting on the floor of the shower\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Director Emerald Fennell was stunned by the revelation, inquiring, \u201cYou were sitting on the floor?!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>For Elordi, while working on Guillermo del Toro\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d he\u2019d come home from shooting with \u201cso much make-up in my fingers and in my feet all the time, and I left it on for the whole shoot because I couldn\u2019t be bothered washing it all off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This time around, \u201cas Heathcliff, I was covered in mange and dirt, and I thought, \u2018I\u2019m not going to do that again, I\u2019m going to clean my feet properly every night and come in to work fresh the next day.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I went to clean my feet, and I leant back and my back seared into the steam knob and I stood up screaming; it tore up my back. When I went to work on Monday I had a second-degree burn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that was in the first week of shooting. I got a text from Josey McNamara, the producer, saying, \u2018Jacob\u2019s in hospital,&#8217;\u201d recalled Fennell, 40. \u201cObviously I thought, \u2018Oh my god, he\u2019s had a car accident,\u2019 and then he was like, \u2018He\u2019s burnt his back in the shower.\u2019 I was like, \u2018You know what, Josey? Start with that.\u2019 Do you think it was the spirit of Daniel Day-Lewis?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was actual Daniel Day-Lewis,\u201d teased the \u201cSaltburn\u201d alum, 28. \u201cIn the shower. But I did feel something spiritual when we got to the Moors for the first time, when we stepped out in our costumes on this endless plain. You can see where the book came from when you\u2019re there. You can feel it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s 1847 novel, \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d follows Elordi\u2019s Heathcliff who falls in love with Catherine (Margot Robbie), a woman who hails from a wealthy family in 18th-century England. Tragedy strikes as a result.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Robbie, 35, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/05\/entertainment\/margot-robbie-defends-jacob-elordis-wuthering-heights-casting\/\">defended her co-star<\/a> after Elordi\u2019s casting\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/04\/entertainment\/margot-robbie-jacob-elordis-wuthering-heights-called-soft-porn\/\">garnered backlash from online critics.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get it,\u201d the \u201cBarbie\u201d star expressed during an interview with\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.co.uk\/article\/margot-robbie-british-vogue-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">British Vogue<\/a>\u00a0at the time. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing else to go off at this point until people see the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw him play Heathcliff, and he is Heathcliff,\u201d Robbie added. \u201cI\u2019d say, just wait. Trust me, you\u2019ll be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair previously first came under fire after the romance project was announced in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Some fans criticized Robbie for being too old to play Catherine, who is described as \u201calmost 17\u201d with \u201cbrown ringlets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others questioned if Elordi was the right fit. <\/p>\n<p>In the novel, the color of Heathcliff\u2019s skin is left ambiguous, but the character is described at one point as a \u201cdark-skinned gipsy\u201d who wishes he had \u201clight hair and a fair skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Elordi was feeling less than euphoric. 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