Jacob Elordi and Alison Oliver share insight into how a shocking dog collar scene was filmed for Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights.
The disturbing moment comes towards the end of the film, when Nelly visits Heathcliff (Elordi) and his wife Isabella (Oliver) in Wuthering Heights.
Nelly finds the duo in shocking circumstances, with Isabella chained to the fireplace via a dog collar and acting like a dog.
“That was so fun, that scene. I think it was Emerald who put the killing of the dog and these really dark parts of the novel into this scene,” Elordi shared. Entertainment weekly.
He continues, “I had so much fun because Isabella and Heathcliff are in the deep end at that point. They’re living in some kind of hell, you know?”
“For him it is a self-generated hell,” the spokesperson said Euphoria star said about Heathcliff. “It’s the moment when his obsession turns into something else – into rabid desperation – and he loses any semblance of calm. It’s a nice point for the character, I think.”
In the scene, Isabella gives Nelly a wink, which was Fennell’s spontaneous idea.
“We had been filming this scene all day and I thought, ‘What if we get a little wink at the end?’” Fennell said. “And it’s so camp, and it seems so strange, but of course it was what we saved for the movie because it was so disturbing [and] because it was so contrary to what we saw, and yet it really explained everything.”
Wuthering Heights is in theaters now.
