Director Emerald Fennell of Wuthering Heights has acknowledged that it was “unfortunate” that a sequence showing star Margot Robbie’s “extremely hairy” underarms was removed from the movie’s final cut.
Margot played the title character Cathy in the star’s sensual adaptation of the Emily Bronte classic, which chronicled her tragic affair with Jacob Elordi’s brooding farmhand Heathcliff.
Although Emerald’s version of the story altered the original plot somewhat, she has since disclosed that she wanted to incorporate one historically true element.
She acknowledged that, in contrast to many historical movies where women are frequently depicted with clean-shaven underarms, one specific scene featured Margot’s character showing off her unshaven armpits.
Despite showing them being “so important to her,” she regrettably stated that the scene “that we see them didn’t make it in there,” since she frequently pondered “where are the razors that these women are using,” when seeing movies of a similar nature.
“They’re all kind of hairless like eels,” Emerald remarked. “What’s going on?” I ask myself. It’s just insane.
Director Emerald Fennell of Wuthering Heights said that it was “unfortunate” that a sequence showing star Margot Robbie’s “extremely hairy” armpits was removed from the movie’s final cut.
Speaking on Friday at the Hay Festival in Wales, Emerald called her adaption of Wuthering Heights a “sister, rather than a twin” of the original novel.
“I saw a fish in aspic and I thought: “I want to shove my finger in its mouth,” she said, referring to the widely shared moment in which Cathy inserts her finger into the mouth of a dead fish.
“Well, I think if you were trapped, and you were extremely sexually frustrated, the first thing you’d do is…” I said after that. “We had all of the different fish, we had fish with lipstick on, we had real fish, we had fake fish, and in the end that was a real fish.” However, poor Margot. She had to do that, after all. Twelve of them were present.
“I feel like I want to get in and go for it and push it off a cliff because, especially in our culture right now, we are so phobic and terrified of being cringe or being earnest, and we have this deadening ambivalence about everything.”
In Fennell’s sensual, minimalist adaptation of Emily Brontë’s work, Elordi and Robbie portrayed Heathcliff and Catherine.
Elordi has stated that the sensual parts in the film were not at all impromptu.
He described the process as “super technical,” with movement meticulously arranged around lighting and framing. “It’s no different to choreographing a fight scene or a dance sequence,” he added.
Margot played the title character Cathy in the star’s sensual adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic, which chronicled her tragic affair with the moody farmhand Heathcliffe.
Wuthering Heights, which is set against the windswept moors of Yorkshire, has generated strong opinions on the internet.
Social media was inundated with emotional comments from viewers, who acknowledged that they “did not expect to love” the movie and that they were “crying their eyes out” by the end.
Some even claimed that the film motivated them to complete the beloved book.
According to Fennell, it was the precise objective.
She previously stated that her version is a loose, eroticized interpretation that reduces the work to its “pretty and sexy bits,” but she also warned that she wanted people to have a visceral reaction in cinemas, laughing, crying, and gasping.
