Emerald Fennell has admitted that it was “unfortunate” that a scene featuring star Margot Robbie’s “extremely hairy” armpits was cut from the final edit of the film, Wuthering Heights.
Margot plays titular heroine Cathy in Starr’s fiery reimagining of the Emily Brontë novel, documenting her doomed romance with brooding farmhand Heathcliff, portrayed by Jacob Elordi.
Emerald’s take on the story led to several changes to the original plot, but she has now revealed that there was one historically accurate element she wanted to include.
She revealed that one particular scene featured Margot’s character displaying her unshaven armpits, admitting that this was in contrast to many period films where women are often shown with clean-shaven armpits.
Unfortunately, she said that the scene “didn’t come across as what we see them in”, despite them being shown as being “so important to her”, as she often wondered when watching similar films “where are the razors that these women are using”.
Emerald further noted, “They’re all hairless, like eels. I say: ‘What’s going on? It’s completely crazy.'”
Speaking at the Hay Festival in Wales on Friday, Emerald described Wuthering Heights Adaptation of the original book as “sister instead of twin”.
She also discussed the viral scene where Kathy puts her finger in the mouth of a dead fish, saying, “I saw a fish in aspic and I thought: ‘I want to put my finger in its mouth.'”
She continued, “And then I said, ‘Well, I think if you got stuck, and you were extremely sexually frustrated, the first thing you would do is…'”
“We had all different fish, we had lipstick fish, we had real fish, fake fish, finally it was the real fish. But poor Margot. I mean she had to do that. There were 12 of them,” Emerald revealed.
“Especially in our culture now, we’re so scared and afraid of being clingy or being serious, and so we have this fatal dilemma about everything, and I think, for me, I want to get involved and go for it, and push it off a cliff,” she expressed.
Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie played Heathcliff and Catherine, respectively, in Emerald Fennell’s erotic, based on Emily Brontë’s novel of the same name. Wuthering Heights.
