Fans Are Furious About Margot Robbie’s Latest Co-Star

As reported in Deadline, a number of Bronte experts weighed in with concern over the Jacob Elordi casting alongside Margot Robbie saying it was effectively whitewashing the role to fit Hollywood. Michael Steward of the Bronte Writing Center said there’s been, “many years of white actors playing the more ambiguous ethnic character…” And Dr Claire O’Callaghan from the Brontë Society followed up that the “casting of a white actor…overlooks the ambiguity that’s there.”

On that latter point, it doesn’t appear there’s too much ambiguity in the original Wuthering Heights novel, though it could still clearly be left up to interpretation. There’s also the question of whether it truly matters in the context of telling the best version of the story.