Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, with Margot Robbie as Catherine and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, had its UK premiere in Leicester Square.
Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights had its UK premiere at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in the West End on Thursday 5 February 2026. Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, its Catherine and Heathcliff, walked a rain-soaked carpet.
Fennell was born in London in 1985 and studied at Oxford. She acted first, in Call the Midwife and The Crown, then ran Killing Eve for its second season. Her first film as director, Promising Young Woman, won her the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and Saltburn, with Elordi, followed in 2023.
Robbie, whose company LuckyChap produced the film, began in Neighbours before The Wolf of Wall Street made her name. She has since been nominated for three Academy Awards. Elordi came through Euphoria and was nominated for an Academy Award for the Creature in Frankenstein.
Fennell wrote the script loosely from Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel. She has said she wanted to recreate the feeling of a teenage girl reading the book for the first time.
Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell of the cast joined them, eight days before the film opened in British cinemas on 13 February.