Fans slam ‘nightmare casting’ of Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in Emerald Fennell film

The Saltburn filmmaker's latest project, an adaptation of Wuthering Heights, volition prima Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie - and fans are fuming implicit the news

Fans are slamming Emerald Fennell for the ‘nightmare casting’ of Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie successful her upcoming movie adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

The Oscar-winning director, whose movie Promising Young Woman took location the grant for Best Original Screenplay successful 2021, archetypal teased successful July that she would beryllium adapting the Emily Brontë novel.

Responses to the announcement were overwhelmingly positive, with fans suggesting actors they would similar to spot successful the pb roles of protagonist Catherine Earnshaw and her emotion involvement Heathcliff. Some suggested Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things) for the relation of Heathcliff and Florence Pugh (Midsommar) for Cathy.

Deadline has present confirmed that Saltburn prima Jacob Elordi and Barbie’s Margot Robbie volition play the pb characters, and fans are fuming.

Many fans person complained that Jacob Elordi's ethnicity does not lucifer the relation of Heathcliff. One idiosyncratic connected X, formerly Twitter, shared their irritation, writing: "Gonna conscionable support whitewashing Heathcliff I see. Heathcliff is mixed race. He’s described arsenic having acheronian tegument successful the book. Andrea Arnold is the lone manager brave capable to really formed a idiosyncratic of colour successful the relation and wherefore her mentation is underrated."

Users connected Reddit were likewise disappointed by Elordi's casting. One instrumentality exclaimed: "Another achromatic Heathcliff? Why!?", portion 1 disgruntled instrumentality called it "My nightmare casting."

Andrea Arnold’s 2011 instrumentality connected the 19th-century romance was the archetypal large adaptation to formed a achromatic histrion (James Howson) arsenic Heathcliff. Arnold’s was the past movie based connected the literate classical and her casting prime divided critics.

On the different hand, fans person pointed retired that the actors’ ages bash not acceptable the roles. In the novel, Cathy is simply a teen who dies astir the property of 18 oregon 19 - Robbie is presently 34 years old.

The A-List actors person been astatine the helm of large container bureau hits implicit the past 2 years. Elordi starred successful Saltburn, besides directed by Fennell, which grossed $21.1 cardinal worldwide, portion Robbie played the titular quality successful the billion-dollar deed Barbie.

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is acceptable to commencement shooting successful the UK successful 2025, according to Deadline.