'Wuthering Heights' Director Defends Jacob Elordi Casting Amid Backlash

Wuthering Heights director Emerald Fennell is defending her choice to cast Jacob Elordi in the role of Heathcliff for her upcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. “[Jacob Elordi] looked exactly like the illustration of Heathcliff in the first book that I read,” Fennell, 39, said during a Friday, September 26, panel at the Brontë Women’s Writing Festival in England, per Variety. “And it was so awful because I so wanted to scream. Not the professional thing to do, obviously.” Fennell first cast Elordi, 28, in her 2023 critically acclaimed film Saltburn. “I had been thinking about making [Wut