Jacob Elordi felt 'out of sorts' filming Wuthering Heights and questioned if he was 'good enough'
Saltburn star Jacob Elordi has told how he felt "out of sorts" and "base-level depressed" shooting his new movie Wuthering Heights when it was "so dark and so cold" in winter, and he also questioned whether he was "good enough" to portray Heathcliff in the motion picture.
Jacob Elordi felt "base-level depressed" filming Wuthering Heights when it was "so dark and so cold".
The 28-year-old star portrays Heathcliff in the forthcoming film, which is directed by his Saltburn filmmaker Emerald Fennell, but he felt "out of sorts" filming in winter, compared to his summer Saltburn shoot.
When asked by his Wuthering Heights co-star Margot Robbie if he had a similar experience working with Fennell on the movie as he did when they made Saltburn together, he told Vogue Australia: "I had a completely different experience.
"First of all, I started in January. I hadn’t done London like that before.
"When we shot Saltburn, it was that one summer where the sun was out the whole time.
"I didn’t expect to get so out of sorts. Waking up every day, it’s so dark and so cold. I think I was base-level depressed."
Elordi also told Robbie how he had questioned his acting ability when Fennell asked him to appear as Heathcliff in the movie - which is loosely inspired by Emily Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name - because he wasn't sure he was "good enough" to portray the classic character.
He added: "Saltburn allowed for a lot of improv. There’s a language to this you can’t really step around.
"I think I also knew what she wanted from Heathcliff, and I really wanted to be able to bring it.
"On Saltburn, I could be whoever I wanted.
"But because she had asked me to make [Wuthering Heights], she just texted me and said, ‘Will you do this?’ It was the first time I’d been like, I don’t know if I’m good enough."
Despite suffering the "greatest amount of doubt" he has "ever had" over a role, Elordi carried on, because he didn't want to let Fennell down.
He added: "Cause I really love her. I really love her.
"I usually don’t think about letting someone down, and I really didn’t want to let her down.
"So, the first three weeks, I would go home and I had the greatest amount of doubt I’ve probably ever had.
"Then, when that went away, it started to feel like Saltburn again, when I let go and relinquished a little bit, because I was holding it so tightly.
"Like, it’s Heathcliff. It has to be Heathcliff. And then I started to understand the movie more.
"Neither was better than the other, and it wasn’t a bad experience either."
