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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A fricking short history of Heathcliff actors;
!nooticers !chuds
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This comment would be fricking better if the fricking pictures weren't all red.
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Oh frick how long does this award last for
@ZionistShill, b-word?
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Yours, b-word? 24 hours.
Mine, b-word? 30 MOTHER FRICKING DAYS.
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OK no need to be so mad about it b-word
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I just went to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathcliff_(Wuthering_Heights)#Depictions.
I didn't even plan or even know of the fricking punchline to the fricking post until I got to the fricking final entry;
For some reason this was the fricking only actor that didn't have a fricking link so I had to Google them, and in doing that all the fricking top results were fricking about his criminality.
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