The upcoming Wuthering Heights adaptation continues to round out its cast, with Variety reporting that several actors have been cast as the younger versions of the leads.
Who is young Cathy and Heathcliff in the Wuthering Heights cast?
According to Variety’s report, Owen Cooper, a British actor who recently made his debut in Netflix’s Adolescence, will play the role of a teenage Heathcliff played by Jacob Elordi in the film.
Charlotte Mellington, who most recently starred as Lavender in the West End production of Matilda the Musical, will play the younger version of Margot Robbie’s Catherine Earnshaw.
Vy Nguyen has also been cast in the upcoming movie and will play a younger Nelly Dean, played by Hong Chau, who serves as the main narrator for the story in the original novel.
All three actors will be making their feature film debuts in the upcoming adaptation.
As mentioned above, the Wuthering Heights adaptation will be led by Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. Other castmembers for the film include Shazad Latif as Edgar Linton, Hong Chau as Nelly Dean, and Alison Oliver as Isabella Linton.
Along with directing, Emerald Fennell is also writing and producing the film, which will be her latest project following 2023’s Saltburn and 2020’s Promising Young Woman.
The project is based on the legendary 1847 novel by English novelist and poet Emily Brontë and will see Robbie and Elordi play Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, respectively. Earnshaw and Heathcliff serve as the two main characters of the novel, which follows two families — the Earnshaws and the Lintons — and their relationships over the course of several years.
Since its release in the mid-1800s, Wuthering Heights has been widely considered one of the greatest novels ever written. The book has had countless adaptations, including film, TV, and stage versions of the novel.
(Source: Variety)
