Jacob Elordi Wanted To ‘Take a Break’ From Acting Until Emerald Fennell Asked Him to Star in ‘Wuthering Heights’: ‘You Can’t Run From That Text’

We would have had to wait a few years to see Jacob Elordi on the big screen again if it wasn’t for the work of Emerald Fennell.

Elordi recently revealed that he planned to step away from acting until director Fennell asked him to star in her highly anticipated adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 romance novel, “Wuthering Heights.”

“I was really lucky,” Elordi said to IndieWire. “I was going to take a break for a while, and then Emerald just very simply texted me, and you can’t run from that text.”

Elordi went on to praise his co-star, Margot Robbie, who plays Catherine Earnshaw opposite his Heathcliff.

“She’s incredible in the film, she’s a livewire,” Elordi said. “I’m so, so excited for people to see it. She’s a beautiful actor and she gave so, so much.”

Fennell is also set to write and produce the film alongside MRC and Robbie’s LuckyChap. “Wuthering Heights” marks the third collaboration between LuckyChap and Fennell after 2020’s “Promising Young Woman” and 2023’s “Saltburn.”

In a January interview with Variety, Robbie praised Fennell’s work as a filmmaker, saying she “immerses you into a world so quickly. She’s so masterful at tone and plot; she gets you into it so quickly — you’re just immediately like, ‘I’m in this world.’”

“She gets in your brain and she kind of taps into the most depraved parts of it, so that you’re complicit in the story,” Robbie added. “That’s the watercooler moment — the thing that people are talking about two weeks afterwards.”