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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Crazy casting. Elordi, as only a half Iberian, is only about half Black enough to play Heathcliff. Meanwhile Margot, as an Australian of full Scottish descent, is clearly far TOO non-white to play an upper class Victorian woman.
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