Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights criticised for casting Jacob Elordi as “dark-skinned” Heathcliff
In the Wuthering Heights novel, Heathcliff is described as a "dark-skinned gipsy". Elsewhere, Brontë also writes that Heathcliff was abandoned as a baby in Liverpool's slave port. This has led many readers to believe that Heathcliff is canonically not white and that he should be portrayed by an actor of colour on screen.
A new Wuthering Heights adaptation has been dragged into controversy after a white actor was cast to play the “dark” ...
The principal casting for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights was announced this week, and the internet fell off its ...
Wuthering Heights tells the story of two families living on the inhospitable West Yorkshire moors — the Earnshaws and the Lintons. It charts the doomed love between Cathy and Heathcliff, the ...
Brontë’s book, published in 1847 under her pseudonym Ellis Bell, follows Heathcliff (Elordi), an orphan-turned-foster-son who falls in love with the daughter of the family who owns the estate on ...
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