Margot Robbie & Jacob Elordi spill wild on-set secret: Wuthering Heights director Emerald Fennell secretly built obsessive “shrines” of them in each other’s dressing rooms to fuel the film’s dark romance

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi Reveal ‘Wuthering Heights’ Director Made Shrines of Them In Their Dressing Rooms

The actors bonded on set over their Australian roots and commitment to the arts.

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi have a dynamic relationship on and off the screen.

The actors, who bonded over their Australian roots, co-star in the highly anticipated film “Wuthering Heights,” directed by Emerald Fennell.

Based on Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel, the story is set in the late 18th and early 19th century and follows the heartbreaking and destructive romance between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.

Committed to the brooding storyline, Robbie, 35, and Elordi, 27, revealed to TODAY correspondent Kaylee Hartung that their director made sure they worked on cultivating their romance between their characters.

“At the studio, we both had a dressing room. Emerald went into our dressing rooms and made a shrine of each other in our dressing rooms,” Robbie shared, with Elordi calling the move “funny” and “fantastic.”

"Wuthering Heights" | Official Teaser
“I felt the obsession between Cathy and Heathcliff and I was obsessed with it,” Margot Robbie tells TODAY.Warner Bros. via YouTube

Robbie added, “It was so unhinged and so hilarious. And she put, like, locks of hair and pictures of us, candles and made a full shrine… Mine was a Jacob shrine. He had a Margot shrine. It was so funny.”

The “Barbie” star explained that Fennell “set the bar” for how intense they should take their character’s romance.

“And then we just kept trying to meet the bar,” she said.

The Oscar nominated stars’ press tour has been filled with praise for each other, including Robbie telling Fandango that she became “codependent” on Elordi during the filming.

“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,” she said. “I think I developed that quite quickly with Jacob, too.”

Elordi said during that interview that they had ⁠⁠“a mutual obsession.”

“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 an elite actor,” he added. ⁠

Jacob Eloridi and Margot Robbie in "Wuthering Heights."
Jacob Eloridi and Margot Robbie in “Wuthering Heights.”Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures

Speaking with Hartung, Robbie said she “can’t imagine” doing the film with anyone other than Elordi.

“It would’ve been really difficult to do this role and play this relationship with someone who didn’t approach work in a same way that I do and that I didn’t genuinely get along with,” she said. “We both work hard and we both love what we do.”

The adoration is mutual for Elordi, who shared that he’s been a fan of Robbie since her work in the Australian soap opera “Neighbours.” Robbie was only 17 when she made her debut on the drama.

“I wanted to act so I had a hit list of every working Australian actor on my wall so I could find their agents and things that they’d been in,” Elordi said, before adding that seeing Robbie in “The Wolf of Wall Street” was when he knew she became “a global phenomenon.” “You came out in that film and something changed in the world, in my world.”

Both now Oscar-nominated actors, Elordi most recently for his role in “Frankenstein,” they said they find it “surreal” how far they’ve come.

“It’s like a silly big dream, you know?” Elordi said.

“It’s just kind of crazy that we’re here now in the middle of Hollywood doing this big Hollywood film,” Robbie added. “He’s from Brisbane, and I’m from the Gold Coast. Growing up, Hollywood feels so far away and this unattainable thing that you’re going to make it to. It’s kinda surreal.”

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