Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation has been called out for its raunchy scenes, and now, Margot Robbie has come out about it.
The flick that is based on the Emily Bronte book of the same name, stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, but features a moment that’s steamier than Saltburn’s most controversial scene.
Saltburn was also directed by Fennnell, and starred Elordi, as well as Barry Keoghan.
The controversy in question came as Keoghan’s character watching Elordi’s masturbate into a bathtub.
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However, he then rushes up to gulp the remaining bath ‘water’ once Elordi leaves the tub.
Now, people should have been prepared when the director said Wuthering Heights had a scene which rivalled Saltburn’s bathtub shenanigans.
Fennell was asked on a red carpet about the first visual she had for Saltburn being the tub, to which she said the Bronte classic had a ‘similar’ to the graphic scene, adding: “Something happens on a rock.”
Welp, she wasn’t joking.
Warning: Spoilers ahead
In the flick, we see Robbie’s Catherine masturbating on a rock, with Heathcliff watching before he tries to kiss her, leading her to put grass into his mouth.
He then lifts her to his eye level with one hand by her corset.
While people have debated whether it’s actually all that raunchy, Robbie has revealed more about it.
When appearing in an interview with Greg James on BBC Radio 1 on Tuesday (11 February), the 35-year-old began to laugh when the DJ told her the flick was: “Horny from the off.”
Robbie replied of the film: “Love it. The first scene, I think, really sets the tone for the film.”
James then went on to talk about the masturbation bit, noting: “Mm hmm. My second note is, ‘Don’t remember that bit from the book.’ I've put for that bit, ‘Clifftop alone time.’”
Robbie then said: “We called that section something else, which I won't repeat on the radio.
“I'll tell you what we used to call that rock when we were shooting when we’re off the air.”
While you might find it hard to believe, there’s an even more shocking scene in the flick which sees a young Catherine watch as a man is hung for raping a woman.
However, the man is ‘hung’ in both senses of the word.
In the scene, two nuns play with his large erect penis after he is strung up and dead.
Topics: Sex and Relationships, Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Film, TV and Film
Britt Jones