Jacob Elordi Says Filming Wuthering Heights Left Him Depressed
“First of all, I started in January. I hadn’t done London like that before,” Jacob Elordi recalled.
The 29-year-old Australian said that filming Emerald Fennell’s blockbuster adaptation of Wuthering Heights left him “base-level depressed” during the bleak British winter. Production took place across the Yorkshire Dales from mid-January to late March 2025, according to The Independent.
“I didn’t expect to get so out of sorts. Waking up every day, its so dark and so cold. I think I was base-level depressed,” Elordi told Vogue Australia.
He contrasted the experience with working on Fennell’s earlier comedy thriller, Saltburn, which shot at the University of Oxford and in Northamptonshire starting in July 2022. “When we shot Saltburn, it was that one summer where the sun was out the whole time,” Elordi said in the interview.
Portraying Heathcliff also brought distinct artistic pressures compared to his previous roles. “Saltburn allowed for a lot of improv. There’s a language to [Wuthering Heights] you can’t really step around,” Elordi explained to Vogue Australia.
“I think I also knew what [Fennell] wanted from Heathcliff, and I really wanted to be able to bring it,” he said. “On Saltburn, I could be whoever I wanted.”
“But because she had asked me to make [Wuthering Heights], she just texted me and said, ‘Will you do this?’ It was the first time I’d been like, ‘I don’t know if I’m good enough,’” Elordi added, as reported by The Independent.
Following the Yorkshire Dales shoot alongside Margot Robbie in the Warner Bros. project, Elordi is set to star in a remake of The Executioner’s Song. The film adapts Norman Mailer’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which previously came to the big screen in 1982 with Tommy Lee Jones.
The new project focuses on American violence, media frenzy, and loneliness. Elordi will play convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, who insisted on execution after killing two men in Utah, while also stepping into a hands-on producing role for the first time.
United Artists acquired the rights to the project. Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt are producing for the company alongside Elordi, his manager Matt Vioral, and Sherry Marsh.
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