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Jacob Elordi said there were moments on the Wuthering Heights set when he and Margot Robbie felt they were "a part of their love, for real"
Robbie and Elordi portray Catherine and Heathcliffe, the protagonists of Emily Brontë's 1847 classic novel, in director Emerald Fennell's new adaptation
Wuthering Heights is in theaters on Valentine's Day
Jacob Elordiis teasing his chemistry with costarMargot Robbiein the new adaptation ofWuthering Heights.
Elordi, 28, Robbie, 35, their directorEmerald Fennelland other cast members took part in an interview withFandango, published Wednesday, Jan. 14.
In the interview, Elordi said there were "moments looking at each other in character, particularly on the moors," where they filmed in England, when he and Robbie could feel the characters' love for each other.
"There'd be a moment where we'd be running hand-in-hand through the moors, maybe not even in the scene, just setting it up, where I'd look across at her and she'd be looking at me and you really realized you are looking at Catherine and she was looking at Heathcliffe. And in that moment, we really were a part of their love, for real," he said.
"There were a few moments like that, I think, where we [listened to a Kate Bush song] and it was this really sort of profound thing watching the sunset and being Heathcliffe and Cathy, sitting and watching the sunset on the moors as the sort of spirit of their characters have for the last 200 years," he continued.
Elordi added, "You can almost imagine that the spirit of this love that Brontë created is sort of floating around there. It really did feel like we were catching little pieces of that unrequited love."
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Elordi and Robbie are playingWuthering Heights'central characters Heathcliff and Catherine, who become friends as children in 18th-century England and gradually fall in love over the years, though they cannot be together due to their differing social statuses.
Writer-director Fennell, 40, has said that her version is "primal [and] sexual" in this adaptation of the 1847 novel.
Elordi said in the Fandango interview: "The moments when it was good and the love was alive were really sort of pleasurable moments to actually see, because in the book you don't see them together. But to actually confirm that love in our version of the narrative and to see it lived through was a pretty profound experience."
Wuthering Heights,which also stars Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell, is in theaters Feb. 13, in time for Valentine's Day.
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