Emerald Fennell is teasing her film adaptation of Wuthering Heights , which garnered significant attention following the release of the trailer.

The filmmaker addressed why she cast Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the lead roles and why she decided to adapt the classic book.

“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. It’s, like, primal, sexual,” she said, according to the BBC .

In directing the adaptation, Fennell said she “wanted to make something that was the book that I experienced when I was 14.”

“I’ve been obsessed. I’ve been driven mad by this book,” she said. “And of course now I’m even madder than I was before because I’ve thought of little else now for two years.”

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