Director Emerald Fennell discusses filming ‘primal’ novel

Wuthering Heights’ director of a highly anticipated new film version, the first time he read the book as young, he wanted to convey the feeling of “primitive”.

Emerald Fennell spoke about the adaptation of the author Emily Brontë, Haworth, his hometown of Haworth, West Yorkshire on Friday.

The film Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi will take part in the market this month, the release of a erotic -loaded trailer, the markets that surrounded the film months before the market fueled.

Fennell said: “I wanted to do something that makes me feel when I first read it, it means that it was an emotional reaction to something. Primal, sexual.”

The author and the director won an Oscar for a promising young woman in 2021, but the best last year’s psychological thriller is known for Saltburn, which gains cult status for provocative and confrontational scenes.

Non -compensation and disturbing tastes are shown again in the Wuthering Heights trailer. The film takes a look at the raised and highly stylized gothic approach and suppressed tension, bread shoots are kneaded and put in the mouth of a fish.

Fennell said he felt a “deep connection” with the book when he first read the Brontë Writing Festival on Friday when he first read the book. “He opened me.” He said.

The story of Emily Brontë’s turbulent and tragic romanticism, written in 1847, said, “It’s hard, complex, not just like anything else.”

“It is completely singular. Very sexy. Very terrible. Very destructive.”

As for the film, 39 -year -old Fennell said, “I wanted to do something with the book I lived when I was 14.”

He argued that some of Risqué additions that some of them thought that they had read the book as a young man – but he wasn’t actually there when he returned to him.

“This is the place where I filled the gaps at the age of 14,” he said with a smile that the film “both good and bad will make you feel like fulfilling my 14 -year -old wish” he added.

Fennell always wanted to adapt his novel to his career, he told the audience at Haworth, and he was “extremely lucky to choose what he was doing in the next step after Saltburn.

The author and director were what Wuthering Heights wanted to do “most desperate”.

“I’m obsessed with this book, I was red,” he said. “And of course I’m even crazy now than before because I have thought of something else for two years.”

“Of course it’s a terror, because it’s a great responsibility,” he added. “Because if someone else did it, I would be angry. A very personal material for everyone. Very illegal. The way we have a relationship with characters is very special, I think.”

At the same time, he felt like “the act of excessive masochism to try and do the film of such an important thing to you.” “Actually, I found it quite sad in interestingly.

“There is a tremendous amount of sadochism in this book. There is a reason why people are shocked by this [when it was published].

“But it was a kind of masochist exercise because I love him very much and I don’t love me back and I have to live with it. So I think of disturbing, but really useful.”

35 -year -old Robbie is the choice of raised eyebrows because she is older than Catherine Earnshaw, who is young in the book; Heathcliff is defined by Brontë as “dark skin”.

Speaking about the Australian actor Elordi, Fennell said that he wanted him to play Heathcliff after seeing him on the Saltburn set and said, “In the first book I read, he likes the picture of Heathcliff.”

“And that was very terrible because I wanted to scream. Frankly, it’s not a professional to do it.

“I was thinking of doing this and there was something to me … He’s a very amazing actor.”

In the meantime, Robbie said, “I’ve met so far – it’s not like anyone – and I think I felt like Cathy.

“Very beautiful and interesting and surprising person like Cathy,” Barbie actress from Australia said.

“To be honest, he could have committed a lethal madness, and no one would mind, and Cathy was for me. Cathy, who pushed him to see how far he could go.

“So like Margot, not just an incredible actress – he needed someone with a star – which means a power, another world power, a divine power, which means that people lose their minds.”

Despite some freedoms, Fennell said that Brontë protected most of his original dialogue.

“I was really determined to protect most of your dialogue [as possible] Because the best dialogue so far, “he said.” I was not better and who could do it? “

Fennell’s Wuthering Heights will be published on February 14 in theaters – Valentine’s Day – next year.