“Margot Robbie stepped onto the rainy red carpet in a glam gown braised with hair at the Wuthering Heights London premiere on Thursday evening.”, — write: www.dailymail.co.uk
The Aussie actress, 35, stunned in a daring sheer gown with Victorian-esque corset to promote her role as the fierce heroine Catherine Earnshaw in Emerald Fennell’s much-anticipated adaptation of Emily Bronte’s novel.
The Dilara Findikoglu look was inspired by one of Charlotte Bronte’s traditional mourning bracelets, which was thought to be made out of sisters Emily and Anne’s locks.
The bracelet, traditionally worn to commemorate a deceased loved one during the Victorian era, also featured gold and a pendant diamond.
Margot sported a reproduction of the 175-year-old accessory with the intricate braiding mimicked in the corset made of blonde hair to match her own tresses.
The actress is a longtime fan of Dilara Findikoglu’s looks, having sported many of the London-based designer’s outfits while promoting Barbie in the UK back in 2023.
Meanwhile in an equally kooky move, director Emerald has revealed the wallpaper seen onscreen in Cathy’s bedroom was created using silk printed with images of her leading lady’s ‘veins and freckles’.
During a screening of the film at the BFI Southbank, she explained: ‘We asked her to send us all her veins and her freckles, and then we printed it on silk and stuffed it and put latex over it so that it could sweat.
‘At first glance, you don’t see any of it, it’s just a beautiful pink room. It’s like a visual example of what it feels like to be made a wife, to be made an object of beauty, to be a collector’s item.’
Emerald also explained another unusual move she made to encourage her actors to get into character – revealing she created ‘shrines’ and placed them in the stars’ bedrooms.
She said: ‘I was like: ‘I’m going to go through the internet, I’m going to find their best photos and then I’m going to make shrines in their bedrooms for each other’.
‘So when Jacob [Elordi] went into his room, he had an insane shrine to worship not just Cathy, but Margot Robbie and then she had the same thing. There’s nothing more humanising than somebody’s first press photo.’
During the talk the director confessed Margot approached her and asked to play Cathy after the director send a script to the actress’ LuckyChap Entertainment production company.
She said: ‘I sent it to them to produce, and Margot luckily asked if she might play Cathy. I was very nervous to ask her, because I think we have a different relationship, and I didn’t want to put her on the spot.
‘I was like: “Do I go for it?” No, I didn’t. Of course I didn’t, because she’s braver than me. She asked me.’
The moviemaker also warned fans of Bronte’s book not to expect an adaptation that stays close to the original text, saying: ‘I can’t adapt the book as it is but I can approximate the way it made me feel.’
Ahead of its release, Margot and co-star Jacob Elordi have displayed their sizzling chemistry in a string of red carpet appearances.
In fact, it has led to some complaints from fans that the duo have taken inspiration from Sydney Sweeney’s ‘PR playbook,’ after she put on a similarly cosy display with co-star Glen Powell in 2023 to promote their film Anyone But You.
Jacob himself recently raised eyebrows during a press interview when he declared the pair had a ‘mutual obsession’ while filming.
Speaking to Fandango, with Margot sitting nearby, he said he made sure he was never more than 10 metres away from the Barbie actress on set.
‘If you have the opportunity to share a film set with Margot Robbie, you’re going to make sure you’re within five to ten metres at all times,’ he said.
‘Watching how she drinks tea, how she eats her food. When is it going to slip? And it never comes undone.’
At the premiere Jacob opted for a dapper dark green suit as he posed for snaps with his co-star at the premiere.
Ever the gentleman, the actor assisted Margot with an umbrella to ensure she stayed dry in the pouring rain as they posed for photos together.
Margot has been leaning into the Georgian era of the film throughout this press tour and her recent outfits have nodded to the period film and the 1847 novel that served as its inspiration.
The actress plays Catherine Earnshaw to Elordi’s Heathcliff in the new film, and their off-screen chemistry has almost overshadowed their on-screen romance over recent weeks.
Robbie recently claimed to relish the movie’s emotional ‘swings’ and said her character cries almost relentlessly in every scene she’s in.
Asked if she prepares differently for romantic scenes, she told PEOPLE: ‘No different to all the other scenes that we do. The movie kind of demands a lot of all of us.
‘My character essentially cries in every single scene, but no, it was a joy. I loved playing a character who kind of swings from one wild emotion to the other in an instant.’
Wuthering Heights will go on general release from February 13.