Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi Talk WUTHERING HEIGHTS Steamy Sex Scenes and Shooting Iconic Poster

Can you walk me through like the shooting of that image? So we were kind of going for that that old Hollywood feeling. Margot made pina coladas. I did make pina coladas that day. In the morning so we had pina coladas for breakfast. We had pina coladas for breakfast and then we did our poster shoot. Guys good to see you again. Thank you for taking the time. Good day. You know I feel like as long as they've been a part of cinema history, sex scenes I think have fascinated audiences and I think it's because a lot of people have a difficult time wrapping their brain around what it would take to shoot something intimate kind of with a stranger in front of a lot of people. I'd love to know from your perspective, what do you think is the biggest misconception audiences have about what it takes to pull off a scene like that on the day? I think audiences don't realize how many people are on a set and how close everyone is to each other. I think it looks hopefully like a very intimate moment between your characters that you're watching but really three feet that way is your grip and your camera operator and your spark and like it's just like it's a lot of people. It's also kind of no different to choreographing a fight scene or a dance sequence. It's super technical depending on especially the scene where it's not a sex scene but where I'm on top of you with my hands. That's choreographed because the lens in that kind of light you only have this much space to move so what you do has to fit in the frame and work with the lighting so it's a super technical thing you know. I always kind of thought action scenes, sex scenes, and dance scenes always kind of shared a really kind of similar through line. Films too, they do carry certain portions of the film into the next sequence the same way. That's a good point. I think that's interesting. You know it's not my place to judge how someone else interprets art but I will tell you walking out of the screening last night I did hear someone go when am I going to find my Heathcliff? Oh I love that. And I kind of paused and go did you and I just see two different like that's that's what we're going for that's that's aspirational. Yeah listen to me I'm like I would love to get your thoughts for someone who walks out of this film or maybe the book and their life goal is to find their Heathcliff to that person you would say what? If he pulls out a dog collar. Yeah run. Maybe that's a good time to go. That's just a good life lesson in general really. Unless you're going for that but you'll know. Yeah it's a good rule. But other than that like passion wears his heart on his sleeve always there constantly watching over you. Big romantic gestures. Kill somebody for you. You know. That's it. What a guy. It's like a Hallmark card just writing itself. I mean um okay guys I'm gonna be honest with you I truly do believe that uh this image is about to be on the walls of it to me honest to god it feels like a generational poster in the way that the Titanic poster was. We wanted it to be like something that people would be like I actually want to buy that and put it on the wall. I would have wanted that. It's a great they have them out there. I'm gonna kind of steal one if I'm being honest with you. Um I'd love to know like I'm fascinated with like the shooting because I know they had days where like you shoot the poster image and stuff. Can you walk me through like the shooting of that image? We well we were looking at the Gone with the Wind poster and um yeah we're like wouldn't it be great if we you know that we were going for this golden age Hollywood sort of thing and I feel like in golden age Hollywood films every time they kiss it's like she falls into his arm and they're like this and you know Clark Gable or whoever it is. Yeah so so we were kind of going for that that old Hollywood feeling. You made pina coladas. I did make pina coladas that day. In the morning so we had pina coladas. We had pina coladas for breakfast and then we did our poster shoot. How long does something like that like how many different takes are you guys doing? Like is it a So about 10 minutes. Yeah yeah yeah. About 10 minutes. That is a pretty incredible poster. I'm gonna cut you guys loose on this. I think it goes without saying that that any film uh you know novel adaptation it's it's never going to be one-to-one. It's never going to be an exact copy. I'd love to know what is a change that you made to your character that you're proud of that if Emily Bronte were standing right here you would be able to say here's why I made that change and I think it was the right call. Because I feel like I didn't make a change to Kathy. I was really trying to do the version of Kathy. I don't know. I mean it's it's true what you said though because we're it's kind of a blessing that so many adaptations have already been done of Wuthering Heights so that you can kind of feel a little more free to be like there's so many you can go and watch and you can have moments of the book kind of put on screen in the different iterations and here's a new version. This is more of an interpretation rather than adaptation. It's um you know it's it's in it's Emerald giving you the feeling she had when she read the book at 14. It's not a page-for-page recreation which you can't do. It's impossible for any book but particularly for this book impossible. Um so so instead what she's done is taken the feeling the book gave her and then made a film to give you that feeling um which I think she's really done beautifully and I I would hope that uh yeah I'd hope Emily Bronte would feel the same. There's an entire generation of people about to start looking for their Heathcliff. For better or for worse. Comes out with a dog collar. Put it down. Guys uh thank you for always being so kind to me. I know you guys always have very busy days but the fact that I get to still sit in front of you really does mean a lot to me. Thank you. Really appreciate it. You too.