Jacob Elordi, Margot Robbie’s 'Wuthering Heights' Trailer Gets Mixed Reaction

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Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie’s undeniable sexual tension explodes in an official trailer and a brand new poster for Wuthering Heights.

The duo star in Saltburn writer-director Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the 1847 romance novel by Emily Brontë as one of the most beloved couples in literary history — Catherine Earnshaw and the orphan heartthrob Heathcliff. When Catherine is forced to marry the wealthy Edgar Linton (Star Trek: Discovery’s Shazad Latif), she can’t shake her passion for the orphan who’d once stolen her heart.

Soundtracked to Charli XCX’s “Everything is Romantic,” the latest adaptation of Wuthering Heights plays up the sexual chemistry between its two leads with a glimpse into Catherine’s blush-inducing fantasies about her family’s bearded lodger.

With quick shots of corsets being laced up and fingers dragged across a scarred back in the heat of passion, the trailer builds up to Cathy and Heathcliff finally coming together in a sweat-soaked embrace.

“Do you want me to stop?” Heathcliff tenderly asks while pulling Catherine close, before she whispers: “No …”

Meanwhile, fans of both actors were already excited by the pairing of Robbie and Elordi playing Cathy and Heathcliff when they were first cast in September 2024, though anticipation has gone into overdrive ahead of the movie’s Valentine’s Day 2026 release.

“It feels like Emerald is taking Saltburn to the next level with this one,” one YouTube commenter joked.

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Another viewer noted: “Always knew Emerald Fennell’s version would be a reimagined Wuthering Heights, not a straight adaptation of the Bronte novel. And with songs by Charlie XCX. Film will be as divisive as Saltburn — but that’s why I love movies”

“I can’t wait to be fed good next Valentine’s Day,” another YouTube user wrote.

Not everyone was thrilled with Robbie and Elordi’s overtly sexy take on the timeless novel, as several on social media derisively referred to the trailer feeling more like “50 Shades of Brontë” than Wuthering Heights.

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“Ya hear that? That was the breathless gasp of the corpse of the author having a stake nailed through her heart,” one brutal YouTube comment read.

Others complained that Fennel’s take on Wuthering Heights seemed like it was “made in a lab to cater to online twitter stans and people who want to make tiktok edits,” while a user questioned “why it’s named after Wuthering Heights if it has nothing in common” with the book. (Wuthering Heights has been adapted on film and TV dozens of times in the past, with Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley, Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, and James Howson and Kaya Scodelario having starred in other modern interpretations of Brontë’s work.)

Fennell, 39, is no stranger to pushing the boundaries of sexual content in her films, as much of the publicity around 2024 awards season contender Saltburn centered around star Barry Keoghan dancing completely naked to “Murder on the Dancefloor” in one very memorable scene. Robbie’s company Luckychap produced Saltburn, and she has specifically praised the filmmaker’s approach to sexuality on screen in the past.

“She’s so masterful at tone and plot; she gets you into it so quickly — you’re just immediately like, ‘I’m in this world,’” Robbie, 35, told Variety of Saltburn’s infamous nude dance number. “So by the time you get to something like the bathtub scene, she’s primed you for it. She’s got you. You’re, like, picking at a scab; you’re like, ‘I can’t help myself.’ Or like popping a pimple: ‘I know I shouldn’t squeeze but I’m gonna.’”

Robbie previously leaned into the debate over the lusty vibe of Fennell’s Wuthering Heights by promising MTV News that the 2026 movie will be even more “bananas” than Saltburn.