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Jacob Elordi has teased his chemistry with co-star Margot Robbie in the new Wuthering Heights movie.
Elordi, 28, Robbie, 35, director Emerald Fennell, and other cast members participated in an interview with Fandango published on Wednesday, January 14th.
In an interview, Elordi said that while filming in England, he and Robbie felt their characters’ love for each other, as there were “moments where they looked at each other, especially in the wilderness.”
“There was a moment where we were running through the moor hand in hand, probably not in the scene, but in the setting, and I looked at her and she looked at me and you really realized that you were looking at Catherine and she was looking at Heathcliff. And in that moment we were really part of their love, really,” he said.
“I think there were some moments like that, where we were watching the sunset[while listening to a Kate Bush song]and I think it was something really profound, being Heathcliff and Cathy, sitting in the moor and watching the sunset. It’s the kind of spirit that these characters have had for the last 200 years,” he continued.
Elordi added: “You could almost imagine this spirit of love that Bronte created floating around. It really felt like we were holding on to a little piece of unrequited love.”
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Elordi and Robbie play Heathcliff and Catherine, the central characters of Wuthering Heights. The two become friends since childhood in 18th century England, and although they are unable to be together due to their different social status, they gradually fall in love as the years pass.
Screenwriter and director Fennell, 40, said her version of the film, which is based on an 1847 novel, is “primitive (and) sexual.”
Elordi said in an interview with Fandango, “It was amazing, and those moments where love was alive were really fun moments to see, because in the book they’re not depicted together. But to actually see love and see it alive in our version of the story was a very profound experience.”
Wuthering Heights, which also stars Hong Chau, Shahzad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell, will be released in theaters on February 13, in time for Valentine’s Day.
