It’s February and that means that all we’re normally thinking about is love. Valentines Day and all of that. But there is also that little thing that one of our favorite books of all time – Wuthering Heights – is coming to the television screen.
Normally it would make us a little afraid of knowing a book and knowing it’s not going to be like anything we know. We’ve read all the reactions and comments. We’ve questioned if we read the book wrong.
And yet instead, what we’ve decided to do is just take it as it is. It’s got Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi starring and that’s enough to get us interested. Our former disdain for Elordi has faded a bit, because you know his run in with the paps and saying how hard they make it for him to live. Homie needs a break.
The two have been doing the press rounds and Elordi talked with Esquire about how during the first week of filming the movie, he got hurt and had to go to the doctors for some care after getting second degree burns.
THE INCIDENT
Wuthering Heights makeup artist Siân Miller, who designed Healthcliff scars, jokingly told him that he should go method and get the scars himself. How that could be funny, who knows.
But Elordi joked back, “I said, ‘Well I’m going to go away and maim myself on the weekend to prove to you that I’m Heathcliff!’ That night I went home, and the house I was staying in had a steam shower: a brass knob that steam came from out of the wall.”
Apparently he was also doing Frankenstein at the same time, because he’s an overachiever, we guess. He had A LOT of makeup on from both shoots. We say ewww to that, but whatever.
He continued, “I left it on for the whole shoot because I couldn’t be bothered washing it all off. As Heathcliff, I was covered in mange and dirt, and I thought, ‘I’m not going to do that again, I’m going to clean my feet properly every night and come in to work fresh the next day.’ So I went to clean my feet, and I leant back and my back seared into the steam knob and I stood up screaming; it tore up my back. When I went to work on Monday I had a second-degree burn.”
We’re just glad that he’s okay and that we’re close to seeing Wuthering Heights in theaters.
