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Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights<\/em><\/a>, is getting a swoony new screen adaptation<\/a>. Directed by Emerald Fennell<\/a>, and starring Margot Robbie<\/a> and Jacob Elord<\/a>i, the film will once again bring viewers into the tumultuous relationship between Catherine Earnshaw (Robbie) and Heathcliff (Elordi), set against the backdrop of England\u2019s gothic moors.<\/p>\n But bringing the book to the screen for a modern day audience was its own process, stars Alison Oliver<\/a> and Hong Chau<\/a> explained to PEOPLE at the film\u2019s Los Angeles premiere on Jan. 28.<\/p>\n Oliver, 28, who plays Isabella Linton, explained that she was familiar with the original novel, but was drawn to Fennell\u2019s take on the book.<\/p>\n <\/span> \u201cWith a book that dense and that complex, I think anyone who’s wanting to adapt it, you kind of have to zoom in and focus on the bits of it that you want to examine,\u201d Oliver, who made her feature film debut in Fennell’s 2023 movie Saltburn<\/em><\/a>, explained. \u201cI think Emerald has such a specific vision and point of view \u2026 Because I knew her before, I just was like, \u2018Oh, this is so brilliant, the way she’s deciding to do this.\u2019 I just love what she’s done.\u201d<\/p>\n Chau, who plays Nelly Dean, said she never envisioned herself working on \u201ca period movie based on a classic British novel that people hold so dear,\u201d and has purposefully not read Bront\u00eb\u2019s book.<\/p>\n \u201cI want some distance from the movie and this whole experience and to be able to experience the book as its own thing,\u201d the actress, 46, said.\n<\/p>\n <\/span> Fennell, 40, has opened up about her vision for the film, telling BBC News<\/a> in September 2025 that she wants her adaptation to channel the book in a way \u201cthat made me feel like I felt when I first read it.\u201d But the director is also taking a modern approach, as seen with the movie\u2019s soundtrack by Charli xcx<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s so funny on set when Emerald would give us directions. She would explain it in such a modern way and it was very casual,\u201d Chau said. \u201cAnd then you would have to try to internalize that and still deliver a more formal version and have all of those motivations underneath. That was the really tricky part of not making it feel too modern, because there are so many other things going on that will do that work for us.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Wuthering Heights<\/em> follows Catherine and Heathcliff, who first meet as children when the Earnshaw family takes the orphaned Heathcliff into their home. Over the years, their relationship spirals into one of darkness and obsession.<\/p>\n Elordi, 28, previously poke about the connection he and Robbie felt with their characters<\/a> in an interview with Fandango<\/a> published on Jan. 14.<\/p>\n <\/span> \u201cThere’d be a moment where we’d be running hand-in-hand through the moors, maybe not even in the scene, just setting it up, where I’d look across at her and she’d be looking at me and you really realized you are looking at Catherine and she was looking at Heathcliff,\u201d the Frankenstein<\/em> star said. \u201cAnd in that moment, we really were a part of their love, for real.”<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n “You can almost imagine that the spirit of this love that Bront\u00eb created is sort of floating around there,\u201d Elordi added. \u201cIt really did feel like we were catching little pieces of that unrequited love.\u201d<\/p>\n Wuthering Heights <\/em>premieres in theaters on Feb. 13.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n NEED TO KNOW Wuthering Heights actresses Alison Oliver and Hong Chau spoke with PEOPLE at the film’s Jan. 28 premiere about bringing Emily Bront\u00eb\u2019s classic novel to the screen Oliver plays Isabella Linton and Chau plays Nelly Dean in the new adaptation, directed by Emerald Fennell and starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi \u201cWith a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Wuthering-Heights-Stars-Alison-Oliver-and-Hong-Chau-on-Adapting.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18740,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18738\/revisions\/18740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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