Jacob Elordi: Wuthering Heights Sex Scenes Were Inspired By Novel’s ‘Depravity’

Jacob Elordi has opened up about the racy scenes we can expect from his new film Wuthering Heights.

Helmed by Saltburn director Emerald Fennell, the new movie is based on the iconic gothic novel and stars Jacob as Heathcliff, while fellow Australian actor Margot Robbie takes on the role of Cathy.

Ever since the film’s first test screening over the summer, much has been made of its more sexually-charged content, with its numerous steamy scenes being heavily referenced when the first reviews for Wuthering Heights were released earlier this week.

During a recent interview with USA Today, Jacob insisted that any sexual scenes that Emerald added to her version of the story are still “entirely in the spirit” of Emily Brontë’s original novel.

“Any image that comes from Emerald’s head is inspired by that depravity and love and obsession,” the Euphoria star noted.

“They’re all in the language of what Brontë was driving at with this book, so it was never really a shock or a reach.”

During the same interview, Margot spoke candidly about how different shooting a sex scene is to watching one on the big screen.

“[Viewers] forget how many people are on a film set – there are hundreds of people sometimes,” she pointed out.

“Even though something looks like, ‘Wow, that’s super-intimate! It’s just those two actors there!’ Three feet away, there’s Emerald with an iPad and watching the monitor.”

Meanwhile, Emerald added: “Things that are sexy often take us by surprise. Maybe some people would argue otherwise, but I’m not interested in anything being explicit. I’m interested in making people feel.”

Saltburn, Emerald’s last film, previously raised eyebrows due to some of its more X-rated scenes, including one grave-humping sequence, some infamous drain-slurping and, of course, a fully naked dance routine to a 2000s pop classic.

Wuthering Heights hits cinemas on Friday 13 February.