“It’s just a book!” : The cast of Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the Hauts de Hurlevent is debated

The adaptation of the famous novel led by Emerald Fennell arouses the stir of fans of English literature.

The announcement of the casting of the new adaptation of the HURS DE HURLEVENT by the director Emerald Fennel made a lot of ink flow. The chic and shock duo Jacob Elord – Margot Robbie a priori has not been unanimous of the followers of English literature. Some even wondered if the choice of these two actors was appropriate.

For one of the most anticipated films of 2026, Margot Robbie will play Catherine Earnshawa young woman full of energy, torn between the discreet Edgar Linton (Shazad Latif) and the Dark Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi), in the heart of the lugubric moors of the West Yorkshire.

As a response, the casting director suggests that the filmmaker intends to bring her personal touch to the film. According to Deadline And Entertainment Weekly, during a recent question and answer session at the Film Film Sands in St. Andrews, in Scotland, Kharmel Cochrane Advertisement: “There will certainly be fans of English literature who will not be delighted”.

Casting criticisms have shot so that Cochrane says he saw “An Instagram comment saying that the casting director should be shot”. Not easy to tackle the adaptation of a monument in English literature signed Emily Brontë without leaving feathers. She knows the British director with whom she has already collaborated on Saltburn With Jacob Elordi.

With a touch of humor, he adds that fans should “Just wait until you see it, and then you can decide whether you want to kill me or not … but it is not necessary to be precise. It’s just a book. It is not based on real life. It’s art. “

The followers of Brontë first attacked the actress, whom they consider too old (in the novel, the character is described as “almost 17 years” while the actress of the actress Wolf of Wall Street A 34). Then it was the color of her hair that attracted the lightning of future (or not) spectators: her decision to keep her blonde color did not delight fans of the novelist (the writer describes Catherine with “brown curls”). But it’s Jacob Elordi, the actor of Prison which mainly paid the price for this controversy. In the 1847 book, Heathcliff was depicted by Brontë as an orphan discovered in Liverpool and collected by the Earnshaw who raised him as their adopted son. The novelist repeatedly describes the skin color and Heathcliff’s hair: “He is a dark skin gypsy, a gentleman in his clothes and manners”.

Obviously, the novel is not at its first cinematographic or even television adaptation. The decades that followed its publication saw them scrolling in number, most of them using a white cast – like Ralph Fiennes and Laurence Olivier – to play Heathcliff. It was Andrea Arnold – in 2012 – who broke the codes through an adaptation that stages two actors of Afro -Caribbean origin, James Howson and Solomon Glave, to embody the younger and older versions of Heathcliff.

Kharmel Cochrane has fun and adds: “Wait until you see the decor, it’s even more shocking …»

An outing that should be talked about … lEs Hauts de Hurlevent de Fennell will be to be discovered in theaters February 13, 2026.