""I think the thing is, everyone who loves this book has such a personal connection to it, and so you can only ever make the movie that you sort of imagined yourself when you read it,""
""I don't know, I think I was focusing on the pseudo-masochistic elements of it.""
""Like many people who love this book, I'm kind of fanatical about it, so I knew right from the get-go I couldn't ever hope to make anything that could even encompass the greatness of this book. All I could do was make a movie that made me feel the way the book made me feel, and therefore it just felt right to say it's Wuthering Heights, and it isn't.""
""This is Emerald's vision and these are the images that came to her head at 14 years old; somebody else's interpretation of a great piece of art is what I'm interested in - new images, fresh images, original thoughts.""
Emerald Fennell defends the casting of Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, presenting the adaptation as the personal version she pictured when first reading Emily Brontë's novel as a teenager. The novel describes Heathcliff as "dark-skinned" and racially ambiguous, and the casting choice has generated debate. Fennell frames the film as focused on pseudo-masochistic elements and on recreating the emotional effect the book produced for her. Jacob Elordi characterizes the film as Fennell's vision and welcomes fresh, original images and interpretations that diverge from canonical expectations.
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