Emerald Fennell has spoken for the first time about her already controversial film adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel “ Wuthering Heights .”

During a panel at the Brontë Women’s Writing Festival in England on Friday, the “Saltburn” and “Promising Young Woman” director said she wanted the movie — starring Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff — to convey how she felt reading the book for the first time as a teenager.

“I wanted to make something that made me feel like I felt when I first read it, which means that it’s an emotional response to something,” Fennell said, according to the BBC . “It’s, like, primal, sexual.”

The first trailer for “Wuthering Heights,” which released earlier this month, certainly portrayed that. It features shots of bread being kn

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