Hi, I'm Emerald Fennell and I'm the writer and director of “Wuthering Heights.” “Wait until you see your dresses, Cathy.” So in this scene, we have a tour of Thrushcross Grange, which is Cathy's marital home. It's about Edgar Linton and his ward, Isabella, played by the incredible Shazad Latif and Alison Oliver. And now they show Cathy Linton, played by the wonderful Margot Robbie. The sequence is filmed in one take by our amazing camera operator, Ossie McLean, who is one of the best Steadicam operators in the world. And that's why the halls of Thrushcross Grange are all this kind of arterial blood red. “I said it should be the most beautiful color in the world. The color of my wife's sweet face. Look, look at the freckle on your cheek.” I think the thing about Thrushcross Grange is that it's designed to be both seductive and grotesque. So it was always about talking to Suzie Davies, the amazing production designer, about how to have a strange feeling that was subconscious rather than dominant. In the end, what I was made of were padded panels with photographs of Margot's real skin, veins, and freckles printed on fabric, and then a layer of this very thin latex. And what we found in the Victorian era was a great concern about containing nature. Here we have this stuffed lamb. “Nelly. Nelly. Nelly. Nelly!” “Yes, Cathy.” “Well, you've been quiet.” “Don't worry?” Nelly Dean is played by the incredible Hong Chau. This is the library, which is a kind of collector's cabinet. So you can see these hands everywhere holding natural artifacts that have been lacquered. And it's about containing nature and what happens when you do, which is really the center of the book. That's why Cathy's necklace is huge and almost suffocating, and why her dress is extremely tight. “As for the rest, this is fine.”
