Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi had ‘obsession’ on set of erotic film that made actor ‘weak on the knees’

After months of anticipated and constructing controversy, Wuthering Heights lastly lands in cinemas subsequent month.

Although it doesn’t appear to be fairly the traditional novel many individuals know and love – slightly loosely impressed by it.

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are main the solid of the erotic romance that’s been taken on by Emerald Fennell. And when the trailer was launched final yr, it was fairly simple to attract comparisons to her earlier movie, Saltburn, slightly than the world of Emily Brontë.

Very removed from the 1800s, Charli XCX is even offering the movie’s soundtrack.

Though, retaining issues a bit lovey, the lead actors have spoken brazenly about growing a little bit of an ‘obsession’ for one another on the movie set, whereas Robbie was ‘weak on the knees’ at occasions.



Talking to Fandango, the Barbie star defined: “I’m so codependent with individuals I work with, and I really like everybody a lot, and I’m all the time that one that’s so devastated when a job’s over and I by no means need it to finish. I believe I developed that fairly rapidly with Jacob, too.”

And inside the first couple of days, she was so used to Elordi being ‘all the time within the neighborhood’ that she admitted: “I discovered myself beginning to go searching to see the place he was.”

When he wasn’t round although, Robbie stated she felt ‘actually unnerved and unmoored’ virtually like a ‘child with out their blanket’.

“I don’t know if… I’m making an attempt to get into Kathy [her character] mode, or that’s simply how I’m as an actor,” she added.

The identical goes for Elordi, who echoed that they’ve a ‘mutual obsession’.

Calling his co-star an ‘elite actor’, the Euphoria star stated: “If in case you have the chance to share a movie set with Margot Robbie, you’re going to be sure to’re inside 5 to 10 metres always.”

However whereas a lot of the web runs with the thought of this movie being erotic and that includes BDSM parts, Robbie beforehand instructed British Vogue that she reckons ‘individuals might be shocked’.

“To not say there aren’t sexual parts and that it isn’t provocative – it positively is provocative – however it’s extra romantic than provocative. It is a massive epic romance,” she explained.

The star additionally described it as the kind of movie that elicits a ‘bodily response’ which she describes as a ‘superpower’ of Fennell’s.

She recalled experiencing that herself when Elordi picked her up ‘with just one arm’ or when he shielded her face from the rain.

“It virtually made me weak on the knees,” Robbie added.

Wuthering Heights hits cinemas on 13 February 2026.