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Casting director responds to backlash over Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi's Wuthering Heights roles
A casting director has responded to the backlash over Margot Robbie, 34, and Jacob Elordi, 27, starring in the remake of Wuthering Heights.
Hollywood casting director Kharmel Cochrane promised an artistic interpretation of the Emily Bronte's classic novel: 'There’s definitely going to be some English Lit fans that are not going to be happy,' she said at Sands festival in Scotland The tortured Heathcliff is one of literature's most complex anti-heroes and while he is perceived to be racially ambiguous in the original text, he has been played by white actors, including Tom Hardy, Ralph Fiennes, and Lawrence Olivier. The character of Edgar Linton, a wealthy aristocrat who falls in love with and marries Cathy, is played by 36-year-old British Pakistani actor Shazad Latif, while Oscar-nominated actress Hong Chau, 45, an American born in Thailand, is set to appear as housekeeper Nelly Dean.
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