Emerald Fennell: Adapting “Wuthering Heights” & Crushing Eggs | The Run-Through with Vogue

Описание: On Sunday afternoon—just hours before the Super Bowl—members of the Vogue Book Club gathered at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea for a special preview screening of Wuthering Heights, followed by an insightful conversation between director Emerald Fennell and Chloe for The Run-Through.

Drawing on literary scholarship and her own teenage memories of the book, Fennell chose to lean into its sadomasochistic undercurrents. As she explained, “There’s a quote from Daphne du Maurier in which she describes Wuthering Heights as a kind of sexless book. But I’ve never experienced it that way. That’s part of the novel’s magic—everyone who reads it takes away something slightly different. For me, the sexual power dynamics are extremely explicit.”

Fennell’s version makes several notable departures from the classic text. Isabella Linton (played by Alison Oliver) emerges as a more dynamic character (Fennell joked that she herself is “more of an Isabella than a Cathy”), and the adaptation omits both Nelly’s first-person narration and the novel’s second half (William Wyler did it first!). Perhaps the most memorable addition, however, is the motif of crushed eggs beneath bed sheets—an inside joke between Heathcliff and Cathy. Fennell revealed that she volunteered to sit on the eggs herself during filming.

00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Love for Wuthering Heights
01:45 - Ghosts
03:04 - Power Dynamics
05:28 - 14-Year-Old Emerald
07:41 - Visuals
10:30 - Emerald’s Version of Wuthering Heights
11:43 - Adaptation Albatross
13:45 - Nelly
15:57 - Gossip
18:13 - Heathcliff’s Race
21:35 - Wuthering Heights’ “Bathroom” Scene
23:02 - Sitting on Eggs
23:59 - Epic Romance
25:16 - Next Project
26:15 - Jacob Elordi’s Beard
27:14 - The Moors
28:34 - Wuthering Heights Spin-Off
29:17 - Mad Women
31:37 - Isabella Linton
32:58 - Ribbon Room
33:54 - The Details

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