From Barbie to Bronte: Margot Robbie swaps Malibu for the moors

Australian superstar Margot Robbie has been spotted on the set of her latest movie, a new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic 1847 novel Wuthering Heights.

Margot Robbie on the set of Wuthering Heights. Picture: SPLASH / BACKGRID

Australian film star Margot Robbie has entered the world of the classics, taking a lead role in an adaptation of Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights.

Robbie, who became a mother after welcoming her first child with husband Tom Ackerley late last year, looked radiant as she was pictured wearing a white off-the-shoulder wedding dress and a long veil flowing in the wind.

The 34-year-old Barbie actor will star as Catherine “Cathy” Earnshaw in the film alongside fellow Australian actor and ­Euphoria star Jacob Elordi, 27, who will play Heathcliff.

The movie, which is expected to hit cinemas on Valentine’s Day in 2026, is being directed by Oscar winner and British director Emerald Fennell.

Wuthering Heights will be produced through Robbie and her husband’s company, LuckyChap, which had also backed Fennell’s previous hit films Saltburn (2023), in which Elordi also starred, and Promising Young Woman (2020).

Fennell, who is also known for playing Camilla Parker-Bowles in the Netflix series The Crown, will reportedly write, direct and produce the film.

While details of the new adaptation and its storyline are scant, Fennell has teased the project on her Instagram account, including in a post from back in July last year in which she referenced a classic line from Bronte’s novel: “Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad”.

Fennell also referenced Wuthering Heights as inspiration when discussing her black comedy film Saltburn in a 2023 interview in Time Magazine when she said: “There’s a scene in Wuthering Heights after Cathy dies when Heathcliff digs down to her coffin and tries to get to her.

“It’s very clear what he’s intending to do, which is to, at the very least touch her, kiss her.

“So it’s part of the Gothic tradition that sex and death are kind of intertwined.”

Alison Oliver, who starred in 2022’s Conversations with Friends as well as Fennell’s Saltburn, has also been cast to star in the film alongside Robbie and Elordi, as have actors Hong Chau and Shazad Latif.

Deadline reports Chau will play Nelly Dean, with Oliver to take on the role of Isabella Linton and Latif is cast as Edgar Linton.