Video: ‘Wuthering Heights’ | Anatomy of a Scene

Hey, I’m Emerald Fennell, and I’m the screenwriter and director of “Wuthering Heights.” “Wait until you see your clothes, Cathy.” So on this scene, we’ve a tour of Thrushcross Grange, which is Cathy’s marital residence. It’s Edgar Linton and his ward, Isabella, performed by the unbelievable Shazad Latif and Alison Oliver. And they’re exhibiting round Cathy Linton, now, performed by the great Margot Robbie. The sequence is shot in a single take by our unbelievable digicam operator, Ossie McLean, who is without doubt one of the greatest Steadicam ops on the planet. And so the hallways in Thrushcross Grange are all in this sort of arterial blood pink. “I stated it must be essentially the most stunning coloration on the planet. The colour of my spouse’s candy face. Right here, look the freckle out of your cheek.” I feel the factor about Thrushcross Grange is it’s designed to be directly form of beguiling and grotesque. So it was all the time about speaking to Suzie Davies, the unbelievable manufacturing designer, about have of uncanny feeling that was unconscious quite than overbearing. In the long run, what it was made out of was padded panels with pictures of Margot’s precise pores and skin and veins and freckles printed onto material, after which with an overlay of this very skinny latex. And so what you discover within the Victorian period was there was an enormous preoccupation with containing nature. So right here we’ve this lamb that’s taxidermied. “Nelly. Nelly. Nelly. Nelly!” “Sure, Cathy.” “Properly, you’ve been quiet.” “Quiet?” Nelly Dean is performed by the unbelievable Hong Chau. That is the library, which is a form of collector’s cupboard. So you’ll be able to see these palms all over the place holding pure artifacts which have been lacquered. And it’s all about, containing nature and what occurs once you try this, which actually is the sort heart of the e-book. It’s why Cathy’s necklace is big and virtually choking, and why her gown is corseted extraordinarily tightly. “As for the remaining, that is good.”