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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n‘Wuthering Heights’ trailer stars Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi<\/p>\n
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are caught in a bad romance in an audacious new adaptation of Emily Bront\u00eb’s classic novel “Wuthering Heights.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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LOS ANGELES \u2212 Oh, the girls came undone, all right.<\/p>\n It’s the morning after I invited 18 friends to rent out a private movie theater on Feb. 13, aka Galentine’s Day, to watch Emerald Fennell’s unhinged take<\/a> on “Wuthering Heights,”<\/a> and I’m pretty sure everyone woke up with a Jacob Elordi<\/a> hangover.<\/p>\n Or an actual one from all the Valentine’s Day-themed specialty drinks flowing at the bar. A gin-based “Love in Bloom” or tequila-based “Strawberry Kiss” to go with our viewing experience of what was marketed as “the greatest love story of all time.” Although that’s<\/em> up for debate to many who have also read the 1847 Gothic novel written by Emily Bront\u00eb. If you know, you know.<\/p>\n But on a warm Friday afternoon, during a 3:30 p.m. showing in broad daylight, to be exact, 18 women were indoors hooting, hollering, and in the same breath, too stunned to speak every time Elordi \u2212 in all of his 6-foot-5 glory \u2212 graced the big screen.<\/p>\n ‘Wuthering Heights’ is scary, violent. <\/strong>And the best romance ever?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n “This is what dreams are made of,” sang one of my friends to the tune of Hilary Duff’s song during one of the first scenes of the Oscar-nominated actor (“Frankenstein”) portraying Heathcliff.<\/p>\n “That’s right, daddy,” quipped another as Elordi gripped Robbie’s mouth shut as they secretly watched Joseph (Ewan Mitchell) have sex with a maid (played by Amy Morgan).<\/p>\n Another added, “This is what women want!” when Elordi’s Heathcliff and Robbie’s Catherine finally shared a steamy kiss.<\/p>\n Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights,”<\/a> and its casting of Elordi opposite Margot Robbie as the “half savage and hardy, and free” Catherine Earnshaw has driven the literary community mad since the teaser trailer last fall<\/a>, when we finally caught a glimpse of Elordi as our tumultuous and toxic fictional lover boy in action. The “Saltburn” director’s vision for the novel quickly drew criticism for whitewashing Heathcliff’s character <\/a>(who has only been played by a Black actor in Andrea Arnold’s 2011 film adaptation).<\/p>\n The heavily flawed and complex character, who in the book is described at length as an “it” and “gipsy brat” that is “as dark almost as if it came from the devil” is, in Fennell’s reimagining of the novel, portrayed by an Australian actor as a rugged and beautiful man to fawn over.<\/p>\n Bront\u00eb’s “Wuthering Heights,” the only novel she wrote in her life, also includes intense themes of domestic abuse<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0coercive control<\/a>, as both Catherine and Heathcliff wage psychological warfare on each other, their partners, and then pass down more of that trauma to their children and their children’s children. Much of this isn’t included in Fennell’s version, and early on, many complained the movie seemed to romanticize the abuse in the book.<\/p>\n So, uh, why did I invite 18 women to watch this kinky 2026 version set against a Charli XCX soundtrack when the book is actually one of the most dysfunctional love stories I’ve ever read?<\/p>\n Readers, beware: <\/strong>The movie ‘Wuthering Heights’ makes these big changes from the book<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nJacob Elordi in ‘Wuthering Heights’ is ‘what dreams are made of’<\/h2>\n
‘Wuthering Heights’ can both be deranged and divine<\/h2>\n