Margot Robbie is coming to her Wuthering Heights costar Jacob Elordi’s defense amid criticism surrounding his casting.

“I saw him play Heathcliff. And he is Heathcliff,” Robbie, 35, shared in an interview with British Vogue published on Thursday, December 4. “I’d say, just wait. Trust me, you’ll be happy.”

The 2026 rendition of Wuthering Heights, based on the 1847 novel by Emily Brontë and directed by Emerald Fennell, follows the intense and tumultuous love story between Heathcliff (Elordi) and Catherine Earnshaw (Robbie).

The Barbie actress went on to say that the role of Heathcliff has a “lineage of other great actors who’ve played him,” including Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Ralph Fiennes and Tom Hardy. James Howson, a man of color, was last to play the part in the 2011 adaptati

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