We read yesterday how tiresome it is to read about how an increasing number of people find novels like
Wuthering Heights hard and cumbersome. We have the perfect retelling of them: a fourteen-minute (short!), audio (no reading at all!), erotic (engaging!)
Wuthering Heights retelling.
Written by Jaimee Bell
With the voices of Sam Hughes + Phoebe
In our Wuthering Heights special, Heathcliff revels in memories of his beloved Catherine, for their unbreakable bond endures even in the afterlife. Passion, obsession, and destructive intimacy become consuming during a stormy night.
Speaking to Bloom Stories' writer Jaimee Bell and the lead male voice behind Heathcliff, Sam Hughes, the pair reveal how they uncovered the story’s most intense moments, despite the novel never explicitly voicing them.
“Wuthering Heights isn’t overtly sexual, but it’s dripping with desire. The erotic potential is in what’s withheld - the longing, the obsession and the intensity simmering just beneath the surface,” Jaimee explained. “The challenge wasn’t inventing heat, but finding a way to represent what was already there but never explicitly represented on the page.”
“We leaned into the moments Brontë leaves unsaid. The novel is full of charged silences and near-misses, so we zoned in on those emotional flashpoints and imagined what might have happened behind closed doors and how the central characters might have felt.”
For Sam, the audio format offered freedom to reinterpret Heathcliff beyond existing screen portrayals. “It read like a different version of the character. While I drew elements from the original, this version was an interpretation based on the great script. That freedom made it easier, rather than feeling restricted by the existing portrayal,” he said. (...)
“We’ve been careful to ensure the dynamic represented in our Wuthering Heights spin-off feels immersive, intense, escapist and reflective of the novel, but not exploitative or overly dark.” (Shannon Miller)
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