It's a wrap for Wuthering Heights

 According to The Sun, Wuthering Heights has finished filming.

[Owen Copper's] next big role is in Wuthering Heights alongside Margot Robbie, where he plays a young version of Heathcliff. 

And on Saturday he spent the evening hobnobbing in Mark’s private members club in London’s Mayfair — after Margot invited him along to a very posh wrap party. 

My mole told me: “Margot threw a massive party to celebrate finishing Wuthering Heights and Owen was invited along too. 

“It was a closed off function so it didn’t matter that he was under age. 

“Owen looked like he had a fantastic time and everyone in the room wanted to speak to him about how amazing they thought he was.” 

Treating her cast and crew at Mark’s Club, which is tucked away off Berkeley Square, Margot also splashed out on £500-a-go bottles of red wine and gave a speech before the dancing started. 

“Owen was on the dancefloor with Margot,” my mole added. “They were having a ball. 

“He must be pinching himself. One minute you’re a young actor trying to catch your big break. 

“The next minute you’re dancing with Margot.” 

Margot isn’t the only big A-list fan of Owen though. His fellow co-star Jacob Elordi, who plays Heathcliff, was seen chatting away to the young actor. My insider said: “Jacob arrived late and made a beeline for Owen. 

“They were tucked away in a corner and were talking for quite a while. 

“The party went on late but Owen left at a decent time. He might be a big star now but he’s still a young lad who needs a decent night’s sleep.” (Ellie Henman)

And Yorkshire Live reports that,

Margot Robbie was given the full Yorkshire welcome when she stayed at the Simonstone Hall Hotel in Hawes. The star was in the area filming scenes for the upcoming film remake of the Emily Brontë classic tale. [...]

Of course Margot was not alone in the hotel, as she was also joined by film director Emerald Fennell and Jacob Elordi who will play Heathcliff. Wuthering Heights is earmarked for cinemas before February next year.

A spokesperson for the hotel confirmed they stayed in the hotel for a week and had a great time. They also said the star was "very nice and friendly". (Samantha Teasdale)

The Conversation has an expert examine the now-famous dress.

Most 18th-century brides would have probably worn their Sunday best on their wedding day. This was their finest day dress in the current fashion.

While it may have been an expensive dress, it wouldn’t necessarily have been a purpose-made wedding gown – unless the bride was very wealthy. Significantly, and unlike most wedding dresses today, the gown would also have been worn again on other social occasions.

Brontë tells us nothing about Cathy’s wedding clothes and very little about Cathy and Edgar Linton’s wedding day, which takes place in 1783. However, as the bride of a wealthy landowner she would likely have chosen to have a wedding gown specially made for the occasion in rich silk or satin.

The dress would have been a testament to her new family’s social standing. It would likely have featured a tightly fitted bodice with a low, round neckline characteristic of the period, a sash, and close-fitting, three-quarter length sleeves with a frill.

The wide skirts would have been open to reveal a longer petticoat underneath, or they might have been looped up with ribbons to form three layers in the popular “polonaise” style of the day.

By contrast, the wedding dress that Margot Robbie has been pictured wearing is much more reminiscent of the silhouette in vogue in 1840.

In fact, it appears to take direct inspiration from Queen Victoria’s wedding gown which she wore to marry Albert in February of that year – almost six decades after Cathy’s fictional wedding takes place. Like Queen Victoria’s wedding gown, Robbie’s features a similar off-the-shoulder neckline, short, puffed sleeves and a deep V-shaped bodice.

Queen Victoria is often credited with having started the trend for wearing a white wedding dress. But while she certainly helped to popularise the white gown in the 1840s, she was by no means the sole originator of the tradition. Women were married wearing white long before she chose to do so and they continued to marry wearing dresses of other colours long after.

In 1875, for example, the magazine Beeton’s Young Englishwoman advised one of its readers who wrote in asking for bridal fashion advice, that a grey wedding dress of “Japanese silk would be pretty”, and suggested a silk gown of “pale blue or pale mauve” which “would be useful afterwards”.

Contrary to popular belief that white wedding dresses were not in vogue until the Victorian period, white and silver were in fact the preferred colours for wedding gowns in the 18th century.

The preference for a white or silver wedding dress over a coloured gown can be seen in Oliver Goldsmith’s 1768 comedy play, The Good Natur’d Man, when Garnet, a lady’s maid, tells the soon-to-be married Olivia: “I wish you could take the white and silver [gown] to be married in. It’s the worst luck in the world, in anything but white.”

The historical inaccuracy of Robbie’s Wuthering Heights wedding dress stems not from its colour, then, but primarily from its problematic silhouette.

Of course, historical accuracy is not necessarily the end goal for film directors. Rather, Robbie’s anachronistic wedding gown appears to exemplify a broader trend in historical drama (think Bridgerton) towards a kind of strategic inaccuracy, in which producers and costume designers prioritise experimentation over strict fidelity to period detail.

For all we know, Fennell might have decided to set the adaptation around the time of the novel’s publication rather than its original late-18th and early-19th century setting. Even more intriguingly, she might be using the wedding dress to signal the adaptation’s more modern inflections.

Robbie’s wedding dress and cathedral-length veil wouldn’t look out of place at a contemporary wedding. Basque, or drop waist, wedding dresses dominated New York bridal fashion week in October 2024 and are poised to become a major trend in 2025 having been adopted by celebrities such as actor Millie Bobby Brown and podcaster Alex Cooper. Perhaps Fennell’s Cathy is just extremely fashion forward. (Danielle Mariann Dove)

According to The Telegraph, Top Withens is one of 'Ten little-known historical sites that offer a glimpse of forgotten Britain'.

5. Top Withens

Haworth, Yorkshire

Emily Brontë described it as “fierce and unchanging”. You could say the same for many of her legions of readers, some of whom depart from the vertiginous main street of her home village of Haworth in Yorkshire on the one-hour walk to the ruins of Top Withens. According to Ellen Nussey, a friend of the Brontë sisters, this was the probable inspiration for the eponymous home where Heathcliff broods in Wuthering Heights. The ruin was a farmhouse before being abandoned around a century ago and today the stark remnants (accessible via the Pennine Way from Howarth [sic]) are roofless but command the same views out over crumpled, treeless moor that rendered Heathcliff, “pale…with an expression of mortal hate.” Free; bronteadventures.co.uk

Insider tip: Continue onto the village of Stanbury and you’ll find the Wuthering Heights Inn. Far from a cynical tourist cash in, this is a cracking old boozer with a campsite, real ales and wonderful moorland views from the beer garden. (Rob Crossan)

AnneBrontë.org has a post on the 170th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's death.