Wuthering Heights' casting director defends casting Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff

I don't have strong feelings about Wuthering Heights, the novel or any of the film adaptations. Jane Eyre is the book I have strong feelings about, and if Margot Robbie ever tries to play Jane Eyre, I will be ready to fight her one-on-one. But Margot signed on to play Catherine in Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Wuthering Heights. WH fans have already been traumatized by the casting and the first photos from the set. It's not just that Margot is a 34-year-old woman playing a character who is supposed to be 18 or 19 years old. It's that they cast Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff. Heathcliff, . . .