In the Wuthering Heights novel, Heathcliff is described as a "dark-skinned gipsy". Elsewhere, Brontë also writes that Heathcliff was abandoned as a baby in Liverpool's slave port. This has led many readers to believe that Heathcliff is canonically not white and that he should be portrayed by an actor of colour on screen.

The principal casting for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights was announced this week, and the internet fell off its collective Bottega Veneta stuffed-animal beanbag. Euphoria ’s resident narcissist psychopath Jacob Elordi will play Heathcliff opposite Barbie girl Margot Robbie ’s it’s-me-I’m-Cathy in the latest adaptation of Emily Brontë’s romantic tale (or brutally vengeful,