{"id":2279989,"date":"2026-02-13T05:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2279989"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:42:31","slug":"unpacking-the-wuthering-heights-heathcliff-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/unpacking-the-wuthering-heights-heathcliff-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking The Wuthering Heights Heathcliff Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m not trying to be condescending, I just genuinely didn\u2019t expect a nuanced rumination on class, race, desire, and abuse from this movie. I watched the trailers, heard Robbie and Fennell talk about the movie, and I\u2019ve seen Fennell\u2019s previous films (which I didn\u2019t hate!). I knew what they were trying to do with Wuthering Heights<\/em>. It\u2019s the spiritual equivalent to the genre of toxic white mess that unfolds in TV hits like Succession<\/em><\/a> and The White Lotus<\/em><\/a>.<\/em> It\u2019s a continuation of the recent trend of modern, magically race-bent, colorblind retellings of beloved literary works, like Netflix\u2019s Bridgerton <\/em>and Persuasion<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>and Apple TV\u2019s The Buccaneers<\/em><\/a>. <\/em>It was never going to be that deep. But all art is political<\/a>, so yes, while white filmmakers should know better and do<\/em> better, I would rather spend my time championing original work from Black and Brown filmmakers and storytellers than wish <\/strong>for a non-white Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell\u2019s Wuthering Heights<\/em>. I think that\u2019s a waste of time. There is inevitably going to be an onslaught of thinkpieces and TikTok rants dedicated to chastising this casting. Sure, let\u2019s call out whitewashing, but instead of expending all our energy on begging for scraps from white Hollywood, let\u2019s support our own.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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I\u2019m not trying to be condescending, I just genuinely didn\u2019t expect a nuanced rumination on class, race, desire, and abuse from this movie. I watched the trailers, heard Robbie and Fennell talk about the movie, and I\u2019ve seen Fennell\u2019s previous films (which I didn\u2019t hate!). I knew what they were trying to do with Wuthering […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2279990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741,21912,312171],"class_list":["post-2279989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-the-latest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Unpacking-The-Wuthering-Heights-Heathcliff-Controversy-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2279991,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279989\/revisions\/2279991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}