{"id":2429527,"date":"2026-05-23T18:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2429527"},"modified":"2026-05-23T18:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T18:11:10","slug":"why-margot-robbies-extremely-hairy-armpits-were-cut-from-wuthering-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-margot-robbies-extremely-hairy-armpits-were-cut-from-wuthering-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Margot Robbie\u2019s \u201cExtremely Hairy Armpits\u201d Were Cut From \u2018Wuthering Heights\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-journey-body=\"standard-article\">\n<ul data-node-id=\"0\" class=\"css-kw9lqy emevuu60\">\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;\" data-node-id=\"0.0\">Margot Robbie was meant to have hair armpits in Wuthering Heights.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;\" data-node-id=\"0.1\">Emerald Fennell later cut the scene from the final edit of the movie.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type:disc;\" data-node-id=\"0.2\">She explained that originally she wanted the hairy armpits included because women in period dramas are often hairless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-node-id=\"1\" class=\"css-18pb4rg emevuu60\"\/>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"2\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Now that Wuthering Heights is available on streaming, fans are no doubt watching the movie again to salivate over tortured Jacob Elordi, and honestly, I get it! But the movie could have been super different, and almost features Margot Robbie with tons of hair under her armpits\u2014alas, we did not get that version of the film.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"3\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Director Emerald Fennell confirmed in an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/may\/22\/wuthering-heights-director-regrets-not-showing-margot-robbies-extremely-hairy-armpits\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/may\/22\/wuthering-heights-director-regrets-not-showing-margot-robbies-extremely-hairy-armpits\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"The Guardian\" data-node-id=\"3.1\" class=\"body-link css-ohbdae emevuu60\">The Guardian<\/a> that Margot\u2019s  \u201cextremely hairy armpits\u201d in her adaptation of the classic novel was cut. \u201cUnfortunately the scene that we see them didn\u2019t make it in there\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"4\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Okay cool but why were the pits there in the first place? Well, Emerald wanted to add in a dash of realism to the movie, noting that Cathy having unshaven pits \u201cwas so important to me\u201d because she often wondered \u201cwhere are the razors that these women are using?\u201d when seeing the typical Jane Austen adaptation film. \u201cThey\u2019re all kind of hairless like eels. I\u2019m like: \u2018What\u2019s going on? It\u2019s completely mad.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"7\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Instead of seeing Margot with hair armpits, we instead got the scene of Cathy sticking her finger into the mouth of a fish.<\/p>\n<div size=\"large\" data-embed=\"body-image\" class=\"align-center size-large embed css-13f5bxj e1fodxfw4\">\n<div class=\"css-1k29q50 e1fodxfw3\"><img draggable=\"true\" alt=\"a scene featuring a man and a woman in formal attire standing at doorways\" title=\"Wuthering Heights book vs film\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1822\" height=\"1074\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;width:100%;height:auto;\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/wuthering-heights-698b5f135951a.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=768:* 640w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/wuthering-heights-698b5f135951a.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=768:* 980w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/wuthering-heights-698b5f135951a.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1120w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/wuthering-heights-698b5f135951a.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1400w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/wuthering-heights-698b5f135951a.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 1800w, https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/wuthering-heights-698b5f135951a.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:* 2000w\" src=\"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/wuthering-heights-698b5f135951a.png?crop=1xw:1xh;center,top&amp;resize=980:*\" class=\"css-0 e1g79fud0\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1pzw7j5 e1geg53v1\">Warner Bros.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"9\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Emerald explained, \u201cI saw a fish in aspic and I thought: \u2018I want to stick my finger in its mouth.\u2019 And then I was like, \u2018Well, I think if you were trapped, and you were extremely sexually frustrated, the first thing you\u2019d do is \u2026\u2019 We had all of the different fish, we had fish with lipstick on, we had real fish, fake fish, in the end that was a real fish. But poor Margot. I mean she had to do that. There were 12 of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"10\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Part of her reasoning is that she wanted to lean into \u201cbeing embarrassing, being cringe,\u201d which she said is a \u201creally big thing\u201d for her \u201cespecially now in our culture, we are so phobic and terrified of being cringe, or being earnest, and so we\u2019ve got this deadening ambivalence about everything, and I feel, for me, I want to get in and go for it, and push it off a cliff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-journey-content=\"true\" data-node-id=\"11\" class=\"css-6wxqfj emevuu60\">Emerald is taking some time off of work, but she plans to come back, and more wicked than ever: \u201cI\u2019m coming up secretly with something so depraved, so profoundly evil, that nobody\u2019s going to make it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/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 www.cosmopolitan.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margot Robbie was meant to have hair armpits in Wuthering Heights. Emerald Fennell later cut the scene from the final edit of the movie. She explained that originally she wanted the hairy armpits included because women in period dramas are often hairless. 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