Margot Robbie Says She Became ‘Codependent’ with Jacob Elordi While Making Wuthering Heights
The actress recalled feeling “like a kid without their blanket” when costar Jacob Elordi wasn’t nearby on set.
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- Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi lead Emerald Fennell’s new adaptation of Wuthering Heights
- Robbie said in a new interview that she becomes “so co-dependent” with costars, and did so “quite quickly” with Elordi
- “If you have the opportunity to share a film set with Margot Robbie, you’re going to make sure you’re within 5 to 10 meters at all times,” added Elordi
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi have become close onscreen and off.
Wuthering Heights, director Emerald Fennell’s upcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel, stars the actors as chaotic would-be lovers Catherine and Heathcliff.
In a new cast interview with Fandango, Robbie, 35, reflected on collaborating with her fellow Australian star.
“I’m so codependent with people I work with and I love everyone so much and I’m always that person who’s so devastated when a job’s over and I never want it to end,” said the Oscar nominee. “I think I developed that quite quickly with Jacob too.”
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Robbie then recalled how Elordi, 28, hovered nearby as she worked on set — not unlike the lurking Heathcliff. “I don’t know if Emerald told you to do this or you did this,” she said, addressing the Frankenstein star, “but I remember the first couple days on set, he would just be always in the vicinity where I was, but like in a corner, watching Cathy.”
“I didn’t tell him to do that,” quipped Fennell, 40, as the cast laughed. “I actually had to ask him to leave.”
By the third day of filming, continued Robbie, “I found myself starting to look around to see where he was.” When it turned out Elordi wasn’t watching, “I was really unnerved and unmoored. And I felt quite lost, like a kid without their blanket or something.”
“We have a mutual obsession,” agreed Elordi. “If you have the opportunity to share a film set with Margot Robbie, you’re going to make sure you’re within 5 to 10 meters at all times, watching how she drinks tea, how she eats her food. … She’s just like an elite actor.”
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Wuthering Heights, costarring Shazad Latif, Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, Charlotte Mellington and Owen Cooper, is co-produced by Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment, the same company behind 2023’s Barbie and Saltburn. The actress-producer works alongside husband Tom Ackerley (who she welcomed a baby boy with in October 2024).
Speaking with Fandango, Elordi and the cast also recalled filming in the English countryside, even playing Kate Bush’s song “Wuthering Heights” on the Moors to get in the spirit.
“It was this really sort of profound thing, being Heathcliff and Cathy,” said the actor, “watching the sunset on the Moors as the spirit of [these] characters have for the last 200 years. You can almost imagine that the spirit of this love that Brontë created is floating around there. It really did feel like we were catching little pieces of that unrequited love.”
Wuthering Heights is in theaters Feb. 13.
