#casting-controversy

#casting-controversy

The trailer sees Bronte's star-crossed lovers, Catherine (Margot Robbie) and Heathcliff (Jacob Elordi) meeting first as children, then becoming tangled in a torturous love affair as adults in the West Yorkshire moors. What would you do, Heathcliff, if you were rich? Robbie's Cathy asks Elordi's Heathcliff. I suppose I'd do what all rich men do, he answers. Live in a big house, be cruel to my servants, take a wife.

"We were best friends from 12, 13 years old until then," he told " Page Six" on October 29, following up on his podcast appearance. It began when Muniz guest-starred on Duff's Disney Channel showin 2002. "I was on the set of Lizzie McGuire, and I was in Hilary's dressing room and her mom was there," he said on the podcast. Duff's mom asked what Muniz was working on that summer.

The production has received backlash for the casting of Margot Robbie as Catherine and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, with critics calling for a Black actor to play the latter character, described in the book as having dark hair, dark eyes and dark skin. Fennell explained her decisions, recalling the moment she wanted to scream when she saw Elordi with sideburns on the Saltburn set, as he reminded her of Dirk Bogarde and looked exactly like the illustration of Heathcliff on the first book that I read.

The first trailer for Emerald Fennell's new take on Wuthering Heights promises a more erotically charged take on the classic Emily Bronte novel. Fennell, who won an Oscar for her screenplay for Promising Young Woman, directs Australian actors Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff. The supporting cast includes Hong Chau, Martin Clunes and the Adolescence breakout star Owen Cooper.

The attention-seeking Boston-born influencer wife of Alec Baldwin, who bizarrely spent a decade trying to pass herself off as being from Spain, certainly has some stiff competition in this category. Over the past 20 years, the dance competition show has spotlighted celebrities, sports stars and even political figures who have been mired in various controversies and other questionable behavior before they ended up on the show.

Critics argue the decision to replace a barrier-breaking Asian actor with a white successor in a production of Asian authorship sends a disheartening message and reflects a broader pattern of exclusion.