There’s a common experience when you start dating someone new and have “the talk” about previous relationships. Maybe later you look up their ex on Instagram and scroll a little.

You take in the old homecoming photos, beach vacations, the anniversary captions from years before you were in the picture. Maybe you feel a small pang – a flicker of comparison or curiosity – and then you move on.

But for some people, that fleeting discomfort doesn’t fade. It lingers, loops and starts to feel less like curiosity and more like a threat. That emotional experience can quickly cross into more extreme territory: retroactive jealousy.

Below, relationship experts break down what retroactive jealousy really is, what it might reveal about you and how to keep it from undermining your relationship in the present.

“Retroactive jealousy is when someone experiences strong feelings of anxiety and jealousy around their partner’s past romantic history or even experiences that happened before you existed in their life,” said Priya Tahim, a licensed professional counsellor. “It’s not curiosity but what feels like an active threat in your present relationship.”

People experiencing retroactive jealousy become strongly fixated on their significant other’s previous relationships and any romantic encounters that occurred before they even met.

“In relationships, this often shows up as obsessing over a partner’s exes or past hookups, replaying details you wish you never heard or feeling way more upset than the situation calls for when the past comes up,” said Julie Nguyen, a dating coach with the dating app Hily. “You might ask a lot of questions, compare yourself to people you’ve never met, scroll through old photos or feel a rush of anxiety when a name or memory gets mentioned.”

Retroactive jealousy can lead you to focus on how your attractiveness, career success and other attributes compare to their ex’s.

“In relationships, it often manifests as intrusive thoughts, where you are constantly making mental comparisons to idealised past partners, or repeated questioning about exes and the perceived ways in which they are ‘better,’” said clinical psychologist Sabrina Romanoff.

She added that you might replay imagined scenarios or feel emotionally dysregulated when learning about trips your partner took with their ex or certain milestones they reached.

“Retroactive jealousy can manifest as repeatedly seeking details, spiraling after reminders, stalking exes online or needing reassurance that never quite sticks,” Tahim added.

“Most of the time, retroactive jealousy has less to do with your partner’s past and more to do with what’s coming up inside you,” Nguyen said. “It’s common in people with anxiety or an anxious attachment style, especially if there’s an underlying fear of not being enough.”

Even in a relationship that is otherwise solid, someone experiencing retroactive jealousy might have a nervous system that’s on high alert, scanning for any sign that they could be left or replaced.

“Most people don’t love thinking about their partner’s romantic or sexual history,” said Sarah Barukh, a therapist with Kindman & Co.

“For some, that discomfort taps into a deeper question of whether or not they are ‘enough’ for their partner. With retroactive jealousy, that question can get really loud and start to sound like, ‘Does my partner actually want me, or am I just the person they ended up with? Would they choose someone else if circumstances were different?’”

Retroactive jealousy tends to reflect underlying insecurities, fear of uncertainty, trust issues, an inferiority complex and/or a lack of self-confidence. There might even have been a past betrayal, such as cheating.

“Although most problems in relationships are co-constructed, retroactive jealousy is often rooted in problems in early attachment and deep-rooted fears of abandonment and co-dependency,” Romanoff said. “It’s often less about their partner making them feel insecure, and more about their difficulty with ever feeling ‘chosen’ enough so they can feel safe.”

So retroactive jealousy typically doesn’t say much about the quality of your relationship, though it can certainly affect it.

“People with retroactive jealousy may also struggle with relationship OCD, as they attempt to soothe the lack of inner safety through external fixation – which unfortunately can only truly be resolved from within,” Romanoff said.

“Retroactive jealousy can show up as a constant need for reassurance, lack of trust and create emotional unsafe spaces within yourself or the relationship,” Tahim said. “If unaddressed, it can strain relationships by creating resentment by letting the past take up space where the present should be.”

Taking focus away from the current relationship can lead to anxiety and emotional distance. Compounded over time, retroactive jealousy takes a toll on relationships.

“Partners may start to feel frustrated, interrogated or punished for a past they can’t change,” Nguyen said. “Trust can slowly erode, not because of betrayal, but because the past keeps getting pulled into the present.”

A little jealousy is understandable, but retroactive jealousy can feel all-consuming, pushing people away.

“The partner on the receiving end may feel frustrated or helpless, especially if they are loyal and committed but feel like nothing they say fully reassures the other person,” Barukh said.

Even the most patient partner can become inflamed or worn down by the strain of unceasing irritability and assurance-seeking. That’s why it’s crucial for the person feeling retroactive jealousy to address it.

“Without the introspection and accountability of understanding how they’re contributing to the turmoil, their romantic relationships often end,” Romanoff said.

“Everyone has a past, and you don’t have to be completely healed before entering a relationship – but self-awareness and a willingness to address what’s underneath the jealousy matter,” Tahim said.

“By focusing on the root fears, limiting comparison, grounding yourself in the present and choosing growth, you can work through retroactive jealousy without letting it define the relationship. It’s not an easy hurdle to climb, but it’s not impossible.”

Awareness and acceptance are crucial in this process.

“The most important insight is to understand you can be feeling high levels of anxiety and distress, and also know your distress doesn’t mean your partner committed an infraction against you,” Romanoff noted. “Your emotions are valid and need to be addressed, but the way you are acting on them, as if they are fact, is hurting you and your ability to have healthy relationships.”

The goal is to cut off the cycle of gathering more information and seeking reassurance, which soothes anxiety in the short term but is unhealthy in the long run.

“The first step is being honest about it, with yourself and with your partner,” Nguyen said. “It’s about letting them know this is something you’re struggling with so the fears don’t continue to dominate the relationship. It’s also important to understand that digging for more details rarely helps. No amount of information or reassurance can make the past feel safer.”

Instead, focus on finding a sense of emotional safety in the present.

“This could mean actively practicing self-soothing skills when you’re feeling particularly activated – for example, grounding exercises, breathing exercises, getting regular physical activity and going for more walks,” Romanoff said.

You can develop a mindfulness practice to help you stay grounded in moments when harmful thoughts start to spiral.

“In some cases, discomfort about a partner’s past can be connected to things that haven’t been fully talked about or resolved,” Barukh said. “Sometimes a partner hasn’t shared much about their past because it feels awkward or vulnerable. In other cases, there may be unresolved feelings that haven’t been addressed. Those situations do deserve honest conversations.”

In addition to talking to your partner, consider working with a therapist to unpack the underlying fears and issues driving your retroactive jealousy.

“It can be really important to gently turn the focus inward and ask why it feels so hard to accept that someone you respect, or love, sees you as worthy of being with them,” Barukh said. “People who struggle with retroactive jealousy are often pretty hard on themselves. Self-compassion really matters here, and it helps to remember that a lot of people experience some version of this.

“Dad, you’re so embarrassing!” If I had a dollar for every time one of my sons has commented on my clothing, I’d be a millionaire. A billionaire if eye-rolls and an overdramatic shake of the head were included.

Last year, when I bought a new pair of bright blue Air Jordans, I was told I was too old for them. Wearing my old NBA jersey (Tim Duncan, Spurs) is considered a mortal sin to them.

Any T-shirt or sweater I buy them ends up in the back of their closet and eventually at Goodwill. While I’ve learned to stop buying them clothes, I’ll never give up my fashion choices.

Turns out I’m not the only father forced to defend his outfits. Some are stubborn, some do it for laughs, and some think they’ve earned the right in middle age to wear what they want.

Ken Anthony knows his Nike Air Monarchs are ugly. His family knows it, too. There’s even a group chat where they discuss his questionable decisions.

When his partner asked him to change shoes before going out, he had a simple answer: “I asked her if she really cared, and she didn’t. I told her my basketball bunion doesn’t either.”

Ken isn’t some guy who’s given up on style. He owns Jordan 3s and 5s. (A fellow shoe enthusiast!) He has other sneakers in his closet he should donate, but can’t bring himself to part with.

But somewhere along the way, Ken’s priorities changed. “The difference now is I put my comfort over my perception,” he told HuffPost. “It’s not that I don’t care what people think, I just care more about how I feel at the end of the day.”

When friends or family make jokes, he owns it. “They’re ugly, I know, but my feet feel amazing.” His philosophy is simple: “Be yourself; everyone else is taken.”

For Scottie Smith, it’s not about comfort. It’s about what he learned growing up. “

I grew up in a time when shorts went below the knee,” Scottie explained. “If your underwear showed underneath, an adult was going to correct that immediately.” He can’t shake that training. His long shorts are “comfortable, familiar, and a quiet protest against trends that would have gotten us in trouble growing up”.

Scottie’s shorts end six inches below the knee. His 15-year-old son’s end six inches above it – they actually measured it. His son isn’t the only one who hates them. At school events and tournaments, Scottie gets looks, groans and jokes.

His boys have started calling him Uncle Drew, the ancient basketball player from Kyrie Irving’s viral sketch. On the very rare occasion Scottie wears shorts above the knee, it becomes “a whole thing and everyone in the family talks about it”.

He’s not changing. “At this point, the longer the shorts, the clearer the message. I’m an ‘old head.’ I’ve earned the right to keep my knees covered, and I’m not trying to relive my youth.”

For some dads, it’s not about comfort or principle. It’s about childhood memories. Steve DiMatteo still wears a tank top from eighth grade. It’s the only shirt that has survived from that era of his life.

“Other shirts just methodically bit the dust,” he said. “And I realised that this one just kept making the cut, and eventually that became a sacred thing, to be the last shirt standing from an old era.” He has a photo of himself in seventh or eighth grade wearing it. Over time, it became sentimental.

His kids point out the ridiculous holes, but Steve isn’t worried. “They’re young enough that I can shape them to be appreciative of this achievement.”

But there’s more to it than nostalgia. It’s become a challenge. “There’s something magical about it now,” Steve said. “I feel like I need to keep testing the limits of the very definition of a shirt at this point. It seems like this will end with me getting kicked out of a public place.”

His favourite reaction came from an old elementary school buddy who also keeps ancient shirts. “You should have seen his eyes light up in appreciation upon learning of this shirt.”

Best friends Mike Lee and Chris Mule have taken it to another level. They wear matching outfits on every vacation. Hot dog prints. Floral patterns. Hugh Hefner-style velvet smoking jackets with satin pyjama pants.

The tradition started on a Virgin Voyages cruise with theme nights. Chris brought matching pyjamas for himself and Mike. It escalated and now they bring matching outfits on every trip.

People have mistaken them for a couple. A bartender once told them a customer said, “What a cute couple! I love that they dress alike for date night.” Another time, a man approached Chris and asked if Mike was his partner.

Mike’s 18-year-old daughter, Jaylen, has a standard response when she sees them getting dressed. “Where are you going dressed like that?”

Mike and Chris ignore her. They love their loud fashion and refuse to conform for anyone else. As far as they’re concerned, their matching sets are fun and stylish. The louder the pattern, the better.

Nick Caccavo takes a different approach to mortifying his daughters. He shows up to elementary school pickup in a wetsuit. Regularly.

As a small-business owner in the windsports industry, he needs to get on the water for dawn sessions. The water is cold. Sometimes the sessions run long, and the wetsuit takes five minutes to put on and take off. When that happens, he has a choice: see his daughters before school or waste time changing.

His younger daughter asks, “Why are you wearing your wetsuit, Daddy?” His older daughter delivers the full treatment. “Daddy! You’re sooo embarrassing!” Complete with eye-rolling.

Other parents don’t say anything to Nick. But they deploy what Nick describes as the “awkward quick look and then pretend I didn’t see that and look elsewhere” strategy.

Asked whether wearing the wetsuit to school is time management or deliberate embarrassment, he said, “Both. Equally. On the mortifying side, it’s pure joy for me.”

Every single one of these guys could change. Ken could wear the Jordans. Scottie could buy shorter shorts. Steve could throw out the tank top. Nick could change out of the wetsuit. Mike and Chris could dress like adults.

My line? Bright blue Air Jordans and a Tim Duncan jersey, which my sons think should have been retired along with Tim himself.

Sorry, boys. The jersey stays. Be grateful it isn’t a hot dog outfit.

Whether it’s people swooning over Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi’s on-screen romance or critics furiously speaking out against the changes made from the original book, Wuthering Heights is the film the whole world is talking about right now.

Based on Emily Brontë’s iconic gothic novel, Emerald Fennell’s new movie follows the story of Cathy and Heathcliff, two childhood friends who become star-crossed lovers, only for their toxic bond to lead to their downfall.

Divisive though the film may be, Wuthering Heights has all the hallmarks of Emerald Fennell’s past work, from the elaborate costumes to the meticulous detail of the sets.

For those who’ve already seen it, we’ve pulled together some surprising facts on how this latest take on Wuthering Heights made its way to the big screen…

Speaking at the Brontë Women’s Writing festival in September 2025, Emerald recounted how the iconic gothic novel had “cracked [her] open” when she first read it at the age of 14.

However, her reverence for the source material also made adapting it for the big screen all the more difficult.

“[It is] an act of extreme masochism to try and make a film of something that means this much to you,” she shared. “There’s an enormous amount of sado-masochism in this book. There’s a reason people were deeply shocked by it.”

During a subsequent appearance on the Penguin podcast, Emerald revealed she had re-read the book almost yearly since first discovering it as a teen, and was still impressed at how timeless the story was.

“The thing that strikes you [is] how humane and how timeless something is, and how much you feel that people have always sort of been the same,” she told interviewer Rhianna Dhillon.

Part of the appeal of the book for the filmmaker was the lack of consensus on whether it’s a toxic love story or a transcendental romance.

“Wuthering Heights is the ultimate book club book,” she told W Magazine, “because everyone can argue about it till the cows come home. And so I’m always just like, ‘You tell me’.”

Much has been said about the changes the Oscar-winning filmmaker has made to the beloved source material, with some critics even branding the movie a “mockery of a classic”.

Alongside chopping the entire second half of the novel, one of the biggest changes Emerald made to the book is removing several minor characters, so the film focuses entirely on Cathy and Heathcliff.

Emerald admitted this came about when she started writing the script for Wuthering Heights from memory, as she wanted her film to be a “response and interpretation to that book and to the feeling of it” rather than a faithful adaptation.

“I think the things that I remembered were both real and not real,” she told Entertainment Weekly. “So there was a certain amount of wish fulfillment in there, and there were whole characters that I’d sort of forgotten or consolidated.”

During her chat on the Penguin podcast, Emerald admitted she loved adaptations that “exist as a response,” rather than a straight-up adaptation.

“For me, it was always about saying, ‘this is a sister or a cousin to the original text’,” she remarked. “It can’t be a twin.”

When the poster dropped, fans wanted to know why the film was called “Wuthering Heights” with quotation marks, which she explained was because the film is so different from the “untouchable” source material.

“I wanted to say early on […] I can’t make a perfect thing out of this because it’s too difficult, but I can hopefully make some people feel the same way that I felt when I read it,” she told Penguin Penguin.

While numerous characters from the book are missing in Emerald’s movie, the absence that has drawn the most criticism is that of Hindley Earnshaw.

Emerald has explained that Cathy’s brother, Hindley, was not featured in her film so the narrative could focus more on the central romance. Hindley’s antagonist role within the story is instead replaced by Martin Clunes’ Mr. Earnshaw, whose character is tweaked considerably in this adaptation.

“Hindley still exists, I believe, but in the form of Earnshaw,” Emerald told Entertainment Weekly.

“It’s such a complicated structure, the novel, that really it would have been very, very difficult to turn that into a coherent movie because it would just be much more time.”

Of all the changes Emerald made to the source material, one of the biggest is undoubtedly the ending. While in the film, Cathy dies of sepsis before she ever has the chance to see Heathcliff again, in the book, she does get to see her lover one last time.

Emerald explained to Entertainment Weekly that this edit was “partly structural” – but there was something else behind the decision.

“We talk a lot about Romeo & Juliet,” she pointed out. “And, obviously, when we meet Isabella, she’s talking about that kind of story and about that missed thing, and I feel so much that Cathy and Heathcliff’s [romance] was about missing each other.”

Jacob Elordi’s casting as Heathcliff caused significant backlash, with many declaring it to be a case of “whitewashing” a character many believe was written as a person of colour in the novel.

Opening up about the controversial decision to cast Jacob in the role last year, Emerald claimed she first had the idea to cast Jacob while they were still working together on Saltburn, after noticing that he “looked exactly like the illustration of Heathcliff on the first [copy of Wuthering Heights] that I read”.

“It was so awful because I so wanted to scream,” she told the BBC. “[That would not have been] the professional thing to do, obviously.”

She added: “I had been thinking about making [a film version of Wuthering Heights], and it seemed to me he had the thing… he’s a very surprising actor.”

Reacting more directly to the “whitewashing” accusations in January 2026, the Promising Young Woman director defended her choice, telling The Hollywood Reporter: “Everyone who loves this book has such a personal connection to it, and so, you can only ever kind of make the movie that you sort of imagined yourself when you read it.”

While Jacob has not yet addressed the controversy, he did tell Vogue Australia that playing Heathcliff caused him to doubt himself.

More recently, Jacob defended the changes Emerald made to the novel more generally, describing the film as “her vision”, and echoing her past claim that it was based on “the images that came to her head” when she read the book as a teen.

“Someone else’s interpretation of a great piece of art is what I am interested in,” he said.

Margot and Emerald Fennell’s professional relationship began when the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood actor’s production company, LuckyChap Entertainment, became an early backer of the director, producing her films Promising Young Woman and Saltburn.

Jacob had already been cast in Wuthering Heights by the time Emerald’s script landed on Margot’s desk, and the Barbie star was instantly captivated and felt connected to Cathy.

“I both understood her and didn’t, in a way that drew me to her. It’s this puzzle you have to work out,” she told Vogue.

So, Margot threw her hat in the ring to play the role, although she didn’t “want Emerald to feel like she had to say yes”.

“I’ve always wanted to be one of Emerald’s actors and fortunately, she felt the same way. It worked out wonderfully,” she mentioned on The Graham Norton show.

Emerald seemingly didn’t need too much convincing, instantly casting the Oscar-nominated actor.

“Margot comes with big dick energy. That’s what Cathy needs,” the British director told Vogue.

Wuthering Heights has been divisive among critics and audiences, but one thing that has been near-unanimously praised is Alison Oliver’s portrayal of Isabella.

The Irish actor previously worked with Emerald Fennell in Saltburn, where she played the spoilt-but-complicated sister of Jacob Elordi’s Felix.

Emerald was so impressed with Alison’s work in her previous film that she offered her the role of Isabella via text, to which Alison immediately replied with a “yes”.

“I just love her so much that I would do anything she was doing,” Alison told Elle.

Alison Oliver wasn’t the only person involved in Wuthering Heights to be asked to participate over text.

Charli XCX, who soundtracked the gothic romance, got a message out of the blue from Emerald Fennell, despite only meeting the director once.

“I had heard through the grapevine that she was making an adaptation of Wuthering Heights, and so when she sent me the script to read, I devoured it instantly,” Charli wrote on her Substack in November 2025. “I was in London at the time, it was freezing and miserable and getting dark at around 4pm, which felt fitting.”

The Grammy winner recalled: “I began to sink into this reimagined world of Wuthering Heights and I suddenly began to feel… inspired.”

While it was Emerald’s idea for Charli to contribute a song to the soundtrack, it was the singer who suggested a whole companion album could work, too.

“I wanted to dive into persona, into a world that felt undeniably raw, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and full of actual real sentences, punctuation and grammar,” the Brat star explained.

When audiences first see Jacob Elordi in character as Heathcliff, he has long scruffy hair and a beard.

Although Jacob was able to grow his own beard, Wuthering Heights was filmed out of order, meaning the makeup team had to recreate his real facial hair in some scenes by laying on every individual hair by hand. And because much of the film takes place on the wet, windy moors, the team had to test-run the fake beard to ensure it could handle the conditions.

“It was a very kind of nail-biting [experience],” hair and makeup department head, Sian Miller, told Variety. “And Emerald, outside the studio at Elstree, got the effects guys to hose him with, I likened it to a water cannon with a Rolls-Royce engine.”

Later, when Heathcliff returns in the film, he has had a glow-up, appearing clean-shaven with a new sleek haircut, prompting the nickname “Darcy Elordi” behind the scenes, in a nod to Pride & Prejudice.

“[Jacob] has great hair to work with and the sideburns. We just knew it was going to suit him, and he would look amazing,” Miller revealed to Variety.

Australian actor Jacob Elordi had already been praised for his accent work in both Saltburn and Frankenstein, but his impressive Yorkshire accent in Wuthering Heights still came as a surprise to many viewers.

Around the film’s release, he told the BBC how he religiously practiced the very specific Northern English accent in the bath.

“I like the ‘meks’ and the ‘teks’, instead of ‘take’. I like the ‘M-E-K’, ‘T-E-K’,” he explained of the Yorkshire dialect.

The former Euphoria actor teamed up with dialect coach William Conacher – who worked on Oppenheimer and Nosferatu – and listened to Ted Hughes’ poem Lovesong to help him work on the accent.

“You don’t want the dialogue from the script to become dull by repetition, so you try to avoid getting too much into it,” Conacher told The Observer. “We went through the poem a lot, and there are patterns that you work out and there are rules.

“It’s easy to fall into the trap of doing a general wash of northernness… I think I pushed it in a direction that was stronger than Jacob was originally intending.”

While some critics have called out Wuthering Heights’ costumes for not being accurate to its 1800s setting, Emerald has insisted that silhouette and overall vibe were more important factors to her than achieving realism.

She pointed out to the V&A: “We’re not making a realistic costume. We’re referencing it as a costume. It’s only a period drama, to a point. The suspension of disbelief is why it’s so fun.”

The team behind Cathy’s elaborate costumes for Wuthering Heights say they made 45 to 50 looks for Margot to wear in the film, which were more inspired by 1950s melodrama, fairytales and paperback book covers than Brontë’s source novel.

“Our references ranged from Elizabethan through to Georgian and Victorian, and from paintings and historical dress to contemporary fashion and representations of period costume in 20th-century films,” Oscar-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran told Vogue.

“The challenge was to distill that into looks that told the story that Emerald wanted to tell.”

One look that has especially been called out for being anachronistic to the period is the so-called “cellophane dress”.

Made from beautiful, iridescent fabric, it was criticised by many for being more Barbie than Cathy Earnshaw.

Emerald had a very specific vision in mind when speaking to Jacqueline Durran about creating the garment, which was worn on Cathy’s wedding night.

The gown was inspired by a 1950s photo Emerald had of a woman wrapped up in cellophane with a bow around the middle, with Durran telling Vogue: “It’s about Cathy being a gift on her wedding night, making herself a gift.”

Margot wore more than 35 styles of hair throughout Wuthering Heights, which help tell the story as much as the script and the performances.

“It’s really about trying to show as many emotions and as many stages of the story arc as possible, and hair really sings out, and says so much about people and where they’re at and what’s going on,” Miller explained to Variety.

At dinner, after she first marries Edgar, Cathy has a unique halo braid – but behind the scenes it had a much more colourful nickname.

“I’d seen something reminiscent of this style in my search – this plait at the back of the head. I thought, ‘If I make it smaller and we dress the hair around it.’ We just called it a ‘Vagina plait’,” Miller revealed.

“That’s what’s great about working with Emerald, you show her things, ‘Oh, vagina plait. Yes, I love that.’ And we gave the hairstyles names. We really spur each other on.”

Another style Cathy wore in the film – which people are already recreating all over TikTok – is a braided look with a red ribbon entwined through the hair.

This look was softer and more subtle than the style Cathy wore previously, indicating she had grown up.

“There are ribbons in there, and they match the ribbons on the rose dress,” Davies added.

Wuthering Heights begins with a gallows scene, in which a young Cathy and Nelly watch a man being hanged. The unidentified man kicks his legs as he dies, with his thin robe failing to hide his erection.

It’s a pretty unusual way to start a period romance, but the director has made it clear she wanted to create a specific atmosphere early on in the film.

“With the first moments of a film, you need to set the tone and say what it is,” Emerald told USA Today. “This is a deeply felt romance. But I also wanted people to understand that it would be surprising and darkly funny and perhaps stranger than they would expect.”

This opening sequence was allegedly much more shocking in the version shown at early test screenings, with one report claiming it included a shot of a nun masturbating and fondling the hanged man’s erection.

According to The Telegraph, this scene prompted some viewers to walk out in disgust. Emerald Fennell has not addressed these rumours about her opening scene, so it’s unclear whether she edited the final cut in light of these test screenings, or if these early reports were inaccurate or exaggerated.

Anyone who has read Brontë’s novel knows that the Yorkshire moors are almost as important to the story as Cathy and Heathcliff’s love. While the Wuthering Heights property is not a real location, the film was actually shot in Yorkshire.

Multiple scenes – including the opening, in which a horse-drawn carriage trundles through a narrow valley – were filmed at the remains of Yorkshire’s early 19th-century lead mining industry, known as Old Gang Smelt Mill.

Other parts of the movie were also filmed in Bouldershaw Lane, Booze Moore and Melbecks Moor in Swaledale. You can see these locations in the external shots, where Cathy paces the fields in billowing gowns, surrounded by fog.

The rock where Cathy waits for Heathcliff is Healaugh Crag, a jutting formation found on the Reeth Estate in North Yorkshire.

However, there were some scenes not filmed in Yorkshire.

The hanging scene, for example, was filmed at Knole House in Kent, with the 500-year-old National Trust property appearing at the start of the adaptation and later doubling as Gretna Green when Heathcliff and Isabella elope.

Some interior shots – as well as select moments just outside Wuthering Heights – were filmed at Leavesden Studios and Sky Studios Elstree in Hertfordshire, home of projects like Harry Potter and Barbie.

One of the most memorable sets in this new adaptation is the “skin room” at Thurshcross Grange, where the walls and floor mimic Cathy’s complexion (veins, moles, and all). In fact, this design is based on Margot Robbie’s own skin.

“For that, we took photocopies of Margot’s arm, printed that onto stretchy fabric, padded it and laid latex over the top,” production designer Suzie Davies told Vogue.

In an interview with the V&A, Emerald said she saw the Lintons’ home as a body more than a building, where the walls could glisten, bulge and even host leeches.

She claimed: “If you look a bit closer, there are hairs growing out of the moles. That’s what the Gothic is to me, and that’s what interests me – pulling a hair out of a mole in a wall.”

In a Variety interview, Davies added: “We had a go at doing her belly button as well, above the fireplace, but that looked a little bit too weird, believe it or not.”

In the closing scene of the film, there’s an overhead shot of Cathy lying on the bed, where you can see veins running across the entire room.

“We printed her veins and everything into the carpet as well, just for that top shot,” Davies explained.

During one romantic scene in which Heathcliff and Cathy get caught in the rain, he covers her face so they can speak without her getting water in her eyes. This scene was actually improvised by Jacob Elordi during rehearsals.

In a recent interview with Screen Rant, Margot revealed that her co-star instinctively moved to cover her face from the spray of the rain machine, and the director loved the gesture so much that she asked him to do it in the film.

Margot described the moment as “one of the most romantic things I’ve ever experienced”, although Jacob admitted he didn’t see why the women were swooning over his actions – as he thought it was actually a “rude” gesture.

When making an epic Gothic romance like Wuthering Heights, Emerald Fennell found inspiration in an unusual place.

Alongside citing cinematic pioneers Powell and Pressburger, the legendary artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, she name-checked one popular reality TV show as a major influence on her script.

“What I’m always reminded of when I watch shows like First Dates is how transparent we all are,” she said during the V&A panel.

“No matter how in our minds we think we’re really clever, – and not showing that we love someone, or that we’re angry – people aren’t good actors.”

If you’ve had Kate Bush’s 1978 song, Wuthering Heights, stuck in your head since seeing the new film, you’re clearly not the only one.

In a clip shared by dialect coach William Conache, Margot recreated Kate’s iconic music video choreography, in full costume, in the Yorkshire moors.

“Cathy may not have a great time in the movie but we had a lovely time making it,” Conache wrote his social media caption. “Here is the joyous Margot on our last day of shooting.”

Wuthering Heights is in cinemas now.

Season three promises new thrills, breathtaking stunts and shocking secrets, as Peter is called to track down a treasury agent leaking government intel.

The actor leads a cast that also includes the returning faces of Fola Evans-Akingbola’s special agent Chelsea, Amanda Warren as Peter’s handler and Louis Herthum’s intelligence broker Jacob, alongside some intriguing new additions.

And if you’re wondering where you’ve seen these new cast members before, here’s a quick guide to where you might know them from…

David Lyons plays Adam, a new partner whom Peter must decide whether or not to trust.

The Australian actor is best known for playing Dr Simon Brenner in seasons 14 and 15 of ER, but more recently, he played FBI Agent Brian Abbott in another Netflix thriller, The Beast In Me, alongside Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys.

David also appeared in the post-apocalyptic drama Revolution and as a detective in Apple TV+’s crime drama Truth Be Told.

On the big screen, he had a minor role opposite Julia Roberts in Eat Pray Love, starred as a police detective in Safe Haven and played another detective in the Taron Egerton family drama She Rides Shotgun.

Jennifer Morrison appears in the new series of The Night Agent as First Lady Jenny Hagan.

Audiences will likely recognise her for playing Dr. Allison Cameron in the medical-drama House, or Emma Swan in the family fantasy series Once Upon a Time.

She has also had recurring roles in How I Met Your Mother as Ted’s love interest Zoe, former soldier Cassidy Sharp in This Is Us and, last year, she had a guest role as Willow in the critically-panned All’s Fair.

The British actor Stephen Moyer plays the mysterious and mercurial “The Father” in the third series of The Night Agent.

Before landing the role of the contract assassin in the Netflix drama, he played a killer of a different type – starring as Bill in True Blood alongside his now-wife, Anna Paquin.

In 2017, he played the lead in The Gifted, the well-liked but oft-forgotten X-Men spinoff, and has appeared in the TV adaptation of Sexy Beast and portrayed DI Mick Palmer in British crime drama Art Detectives.

You may also have seen him in the romance films After We Fell and its two sequels, where he played publishing company owner Christian Vance.

Genesis Rodriguez joins the cast of the Netflix drama as the tenacious journalist Isabel.

She first found fame playing Sarah in Entourage, before joining the third series of The Umbrella Academy as Sloane.

On film, she made her big-screen debut in Man On A Ledge and went on to appear in Identity Thief as the criminal Marisol and as Agent Ellen Richards in The Last Stand.

Genesis also voices Honey Lemon in the Disney movie Big Hero 6 and its TV spinoff, and lends her vocals to Perfuma in She-Ra And The Princesses of Power.

In her most recent TV role, Genesis starred as Captain Josephina Carrillo in Lioness, sharing the screen with Nicole Kidman.

Child actor Callum Vinson plays “The Son” to Stephen Moyer’s “The Father” in the latest instalments of The Night Agent.

He broke out as one of the young leads in the horror series Chucky, in which he starred as Henry Collins, and also had a role in Long Bright River, playing Amanda Seyfried’s on-screen son.

Callum will soon be joining another iconic horror franchise, playing a young Jason Voorhees in the upcoming Crystal Lake TV show, which will serve as a prequel to the classic Friday The 13th movies.

Suraj Sharma has a recurring role in the new series of The Night Agent as financial analyst Jay Batra.

The Indian actor is best known for his debut film role as Pi Patel in Life Of Pi, before going on to appear in seven episodes of Homeland, the Apple TV+ anthology show Little America and How I Met Your Father, starring as one of the lead characters, Sid.

The Night Agent season three is streaming now on Netflix.