Margot Robbie admits she grew emotionally reliant on Jacob Elordi while filming Wuthering Heights

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi may be playing doomed lovers on screen, but it turns out their connection behind the scenes was just as intense. The two actors star as Catherine and Heathcliff in director Emerald Fennell’s upcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel Wuthering Heights, and their off-camera dynamic is already drawing attention.

In a new cast interview with Fandango, Robbie, 35, opened up about how quickly she bonded with her fellow Australian co-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,” she said.

“I think I developed that quite quickly with Jacob too.” Robbie went on to share a funny and slightly eerie memory from the first days of filming. Turning to Elordi, 28, during the interview, she said, “I don’t know if Emerald told you to do this or you did this, 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.”

The behavior felt oddly fitting for a story defined by obsession and longing. Director Emerald Fennell, 40, quickly jumped in with a joke of her own. “I didn’t tell him to do that,” she quipped, as the cast laughed. “I actually had to ask him to leave.”

By the third day of shooting, Robbie admitted she had become used to Elordi’s constant presence. “I found myself starting to look around to see where he was.” When she realized he was no longer hovering nearby, she said she felt unsettled.

“I was really unnerved and unmoored. And I felt quite lost, like a kid without their blanket or something.” Elordi agreed that the feeling was mutual and didn’t hold back in his praise for his co-star. “We have a mutual obsession,” he said.

“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.”

The film boasts an impressive ensemble cast, including Shazad Latif, Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, Charlotte Mellington, and Owen Cooper. It is also co-produced by Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment, the production company behind hits like Barbie and Saltburn.

Robbie produces alongside her husband, Tom Ackerley, with whom she welcomed a baby boy in October 2024. The cast also shared memories of filming in the English countryside, where they immersed themselves in the story’s atmosphere. Elordi recalled playing Kate Bush’s song “Wuthering Heights” on the Moors to get into character.

“It was this really sort of profound thing, being Heathcliff and Cathy,” he said, “watching the sunset on the Moors as the spirit of [these] characters have for the last 200 years… It really did feel like we were catching little pieces of that unrequited love.” Wuthering Heights arrives in theaters on Feb. 13.

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