Margot Robbie has defended director Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, which has been facing criticism for casting and alterations. Robbie, who plays Catherine Earnshaw opposite Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff, hailed Fennell’s work as “this generation’s Titanic”, in an interview with Vogue magazine. Still from Wuthering Heights trailer(YouTube/WarnerBros) Margot Robbie defends Jacob Elordi’s casting as Heathcliff Emily Brontë had described Heathcliff as a “dark-skinned” man in her 19th-century gothic novel. Several Brontë readers, therefore, slammed the movie’s casting director, Kharmel Cochrane, after she cast Australian actor Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff for Fennell’s adaptation. Margot Robbie, who claimed to understand the readers’ sentiments, urged them to have faith in Cochrane and Fennell’s decision. “I saw him [Jacob Elordi] play Heathcliff, and he is Heathcliff. I’d say, just wait. Trust me, you’ll be happy,” said The Wolf of Wall Street actress. The likes of Laurence Olivier, Richard Burton, Ralph Fiennes, and Tom Hardy played Heathcliff in the past. Robbie explained that it was “special” for Elordi to add his name to “this lineage of other great …