The Playlist quotes from what Jacob Elordi recently said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast about
Wuthering Heights 2026.
“I think it’s gonna obliterate your heart,” he said, revealing he had recently seen the finished movie. “It’s such a painful love story and such a tragedy, the whole thing, and I just got to see the film recently. And it’s so painfully beautiful and agonizing to watch them suffer, to suffer in the most beautiful frames, you know, you’ve ever seen.”
Elordi made a point to credit the film’s visual power to its cinematographer, Linus Sandgren (“La La Land,” “Saltburn”), explaining that Sandgren’s eye deepens the emotional impact of the story. “Linus shot the film, so it’s just… it’s stunning,” he said. The sheer beauty of the imagery, he admitted, made it hard to fully articulate the experience. “I haven’t quite wrapped my head around it yet,” he said, “but I mean, I’ve not seen a film like it in a long while.” [...]
Elordi also laughed about his “Wuthering Heights” co-star Margot Robbie, calling her a “witch” and admiring the depth of her movie knowledge. “She knows all, Margot Robbie,” he said. “She knows all.” (Edward Davis)
How it fits into Fennell’s take on Wuthering Heights remains to be seen, although you could, at a push, link the lyrics of Cale’s monologue to the twin fates of Catherine and Heathcliff. Alternately creepy and cathartic, it might just as easily have come from another of xcx’s forthcoming cinematic roles, director Daniel Goldhaber’s movie based on the notorious 1978 mondo horror Faces of Death.
Indeed, given how music of a horror film bent leaps up the charts around Halloween, she might have missed a commercial trick not releasing House a couple of weeks ago. But perhaps that would have been too gimmicky, and in fairness, House doesn’t need a gimmick to work. It’s powerful, striking and rewarding: a sharp left-turn into fertile new territory. (Alexis Petridis)
The visuals, as we might expect, are trippy. We get ravens flying into bedrooms, Charli dripping wax down her leg, her lying on a bed as Cale puts his hands on her head, and her writhing in a forest wearing a white dress.
It’s all very Wuthering Heights, to be fair. Could the final line of the song be a nod to Cathy, trapped in an unhappy marriage and mourning Heathcliff? We’ll have to wait until the film’s release on Feb 13 next year to find out. (Vicky Jessop)
Onto different music now, as
Far Out Magazine mentions Stevie Nicks's take on
Wide Sargasso Sea.Nicks’ love for literature has fuelled her poetic lyricism, with many of her tracks taking inspiration from books she has read and loved. Before Fleetwood Mac took off, Nicks had originally planned to become an English teacher, so it’s no surprise that her love of fiction has bled into her discography. [...]
‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ is another of Nicks’ songs inspired by a work of literature, the novel of the same name by Jean Rhys. After Nicks saw the film adaptation, she was inspired to pen a song after it: “Jean Rhys wrote this book as a precursor to Jane Eyre because of her love for the Brontë novel,” she explained. “I saw the film adaptation of the book in the early 1990s and it inspired me to write the song of the same name on my album.” (Elle Palmer)
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