“For me, the first time you see ‘Wuthering Heights’ should feel like this fever dream,” says director Emerald Fennell (“Saltburn”) in the new featurette for her highly anticipated adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel.
And judging by the description of Margot Robbie, who plays Cathy in the film and is also a producer, audiences will feel just that. “Twisted, provocative, romantic,” says Robbie of the film in the same featurette.
Watch the “Tickets on Sale” featurette, where Fennell, Robbie and Jacob Elordi (“Heathcliff”) talk about “Wuthering Heights”:
Also starring Alison Oliver, Shazad Latif and Hong Chau, “Wuthering Heights” opens in Philippine cinemas February 11, in time for Valentine’s Day weekend.
Get to know the characters of “Wuthering Heights”:
(From left) Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in “Wuthering Heights”
Photo credit: Warner Bros. Pictures
Cathy Earnshaw (played by Margot Robbie)
Selfish, capricious, wild and all-feeling as a young girl, Cathy Earnshaw should have grown up in luxury at Wuthering Heights, a once-majestic manor on the desolate and unforgiving moors that has fallen into crumbling disrepair. Beautiful, changeable and a force of nature, isolation, poverty and parental neglect have made Cathy an outlier, a lady in name only. Yet she remains proud, mercurial and as self-regarding as a duchess – if youthful and clueless in the ways of real society. Though she desires the material things she does not have and is rapturously curious when the wealthy Lintons move in at nearby Thrushcross Grange, the one constant in her life is her deepest, truest friend, Heathcliff, and her love for him the driving force behind every choice she makes… even when that choice drives a wedge between them and pushes her soulmate away.
Heathcliff (played by Jacob Elordi)
Dirty, shivering and terrified, a young street urchin is brought to Wuthering Heights as one of Earnshaw’s drunken fits of “charity.” Cathy forms an instant friendship with him, even naming him Heathcliff, and the pair are soon inseparable, despite his status as a servant. He grows to be handsome, if filthy, impatient, sardonic and just as at odds with the world as Cathy is. His circumstances, along with Earnshaw’s changeability, leave Heathcliff anxious, hostile and resentful, unable to settle too comfortably despite his years at Wuthering Heights and his deep love for Cathy. After a years-long absence, he returns changed – having matured into a more worldly, even more handsome man… and one who now bedevils Cathy in the life she has built for herself during his time away.
Hong Chau in “Wuthering Heights”
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Nelly (played by Hong Chau)
From a young age, Cathy Earnshaw’s playmate-cum-companion, Nelly, is clever, canny and discontented. Her resentment only grows as time goes by and her responsibilities at Wuthering Heights increase… and her role as friend to Cathy is usurped by Heathcliff. Now tending to the house accounts, feeble as they are, Nelly quietly observes the behavior between Cathy and Heathcliff. It is clear Nelly disapproves, seeking a way out of the run-down house and her meager existence, and that she will use Cathy to find it… and keep it.
Shazad Latif and director Emerald Fennell on the set of “Wuthering Heights”
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Edgar Linton (played by Shazad Latif)
Handsome, resolute and unfailingly upstanding, wealthy Edgar Linton, who made his fortune in textiles, moves into Thrushcross Grange with his young ward, Isabella, whom he spoils. Their clothes are as magnificent as their surroundings of gold baroque furniture and bright colors, startling against the grey landscape of the moors… and a temptation too great for Cathy to ignore. When she finds herself nearly upon their doorstep, however, it is Edgar who is unable to resist his beautiful neighbor’s charms.
Alison Oliver in “Wuthering Heights”
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Isabella Linton (played by Alison Oliver)
Edgar Linton’s beloved ward, Isabella, at 20, is innocent as a child. A benefactor of Edgar’s wealth, she is everything Catherine Earnshaw is not, but might’ve been: idle, educated, indulged, surrounded by material things, her greatest concern a roomful of hair ribbons and her tiny dog. When Cathy finds herself under Edgar’s care at Thrushcross Grange, Isabella is delighted, treating her as if she were a doll to dress and play with, a sister she never had… and, later, a rival for Heathcliff’s attention.
Catch “Wuthering Heights,” only in cinemas starting February 11.
Official synopsis:
From Warner Bros. Pictures and Academy Award- and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell comes “WUTHERING HEIGHTS,” starring Academy Award and BAFTA nominee Margot Robbie opposite BAFTA nominee Jacob Elordi.
A bold and original imagining of one of the greatest love stories of all time, Emerald Fennell’s “WUTHERING HEIGHTS” stars Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, whose forbidden passion for one another turns from romantic to intoxicating in an epic tale of lust, love and madness.
More about “Wuthering Heights”
The film also stars alongside Oscar nominee Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, BAFTA winner Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell.
Fennell directs from her own screenplay based on the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, and produces alongside Oscar nominee and BAFTA award winner Josey McNamara and Robbie. Oscar nominee Tom Ackerley and Sara Desmond are executive producing.
Behind the scenes, Fennell worked with such frequent collaborators as Oscar- and BAFTA-winning director of photography Linus Sandgren, Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated production designer Suzie Davies, BAFTA-nominated editor Victoria Boydell, award-winning casting director Kharmel Cochrane and BAFTA-nominated composer Anthony Willis. Oscar and BAFTA winner Jacqueline Durran designed the costumes. Original songs by Charli xcx.
Warner Bros. Pictures and MRC Present A Lie Still & LuckyChap Entertainment Production, a film by Emerald Fennell, “WUTHERING HEIGHTS.” Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film will be in US theaters on February 13, 2026, and internationally beginning 11 February.
