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Emerald Fennell said she regrets cutting a Wuthering Heights <\/em>scene showing Margot Robbie’s character with unshaven armpits<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n The director said she’d been bothered by how period dramas often showed women as smooth-skinned, despite razors not being available at the time<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “They’re all kind of hairless like eels,” Fennell recalled of women in other period dramas, set around the time of Wuthering Heights<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Emerald Fennell<\/a> is looking back on a Wuthering Heights <\/em>style decision that was cut from the film.<\/p>\n On Friday, May 22, the director spoke at Hay Festival in Wales and opened up about her adaptation of Emily Bront\u00eb’s novel, which was released in theaters in February 2026.<\/p>\n In hindsight, she admitted, Fennell wished she’d kept a scene with Cathy (played by Margot Robbie<\/a>) in which her unshaven armpits were visible, because it would have been more accurate to the time period.<\/p>\n Fennell said she was often bothered by the hairless skin of women in period dramas, because it applied modern beauty standards to a time when they weren’t physically attainable.<\/p>\n “Where are the razors that these women are using?” she recalled asking while watching Jane Austen film adaptations. “They’re all kind of hairless like eels. I’m like: \u2018What’s going on? It’s completely mad.’\u201d<\/p>\n