TL:DR it's because Heathcliffe should be darker skinned and is instead being played by a yt Australian. Also Margot is 7 years older than him but that's less dramatic so who cares?
It's nice to finally see the media getting woke to the wrong race topic.
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, known for starring in Barbie and Saltburn, are to join forces in a major new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
The Australian actors will play Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff in director Emerald Fennell's adaptation of the classic Emily Bronte novel, set on the tempestuous Yorkshire moors.
They may be two of Hollywood's hottest stars, and it may be one of the most enduring love stories ever written, but their casting has left many film fans unimpressed.
Some pointed out that Catherine is in her teens in the book, while Heathcliff is described in the novel, written in 1847, as "dark-skinned".
"White Heathcliff and 34-year-old Cathy, and they both look like they belong on Instagram. I'm obsessed," wrote TV and film critic Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, external.
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I thought that the common response to this is that it's just fiction, so the race doesn't matter?
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"Dark-skinned" in 1847 meant Italian anyway.
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Wrong, the Yorkshire Moors have been filled with Nigerians and Somalians since Roman times chud
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This is worse, he's A*stralian
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It would only be fair to replace him with an aboriginal actor
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alt right archeologists have systematically destroyed all medieval paintings that show the true vanta black europeans that used to roam britain like giraffes the savannah.
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Yeah we call them BIPOCs these days
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lol. Dark Skinned in 1847 meant Irish with a Scottish cousin. The world has come very far since then.
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Ages since I read the book but I think Heathcliff is supposed to be Gypsy (sorry. Romani, since apparently "gypsy" is a slur) which is why he's dark-skinned and an orphan.
Looked it up online and here's the introduction to him by the narrator:
A description of when the child was brought home:
Neighbours think he's foreign:
So yeah, whoever plays Heathcliff in a modern adaptation should be Latinx at least.
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They stopped saying that. The latest talking point is that race-swapping is neccesary to increase "representation". That's how they can simultaneously celebrate black hobbits and decry this without any cognitive dissonance.
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Thats only if a black person is replacing a white person
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