Jessica Kellgren-Fozard

Is this whitewashing Heathcliffe???

Was casting Jacob Elordi as Heathcliffe in Wuthering Heights (2026) whitewashing? Was it a stunt to get more people talking about the film? If it was, it seems to have worked… Director Emerald Fennell defended her position to cast a white Heathcliffe, saying Elordi looked like the Heathcliffe she first saw illustrated in the book. But having actually read the book, it’s easy to see that Heathcliffe was definitely not white… Although the new film isn’t supposed to be representative of the original book, shouldn’t we be trying to improve representation anyway? What do you think about the controversy?