Emerald Fennell regrets not showing Margot Robbie’s 'extremely hairy armpits' in Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights director Emerald Fennell has admitted her regret over cutting a scene with Margot Robbie’s “extremely hairy armpits”.
Emerald Fennell regrets not showing Margot Robbie’s “extremely hairy armpits” in Wuthering Heights.
The director filmed a scene with for the 2026 adaptation of Emily Brontë’s gothic novel, which featured Robbie’s character Cathy with hairy armpits but “unfortunately the scene that we see them didn’t make it in there”.
According to The Guardian newspaper, Fennell made the remarks at Hay Festival in Wales, where she added that Cathy having unshaven pits “was so important to me.”
She went on to share that when watching period adaptations, she often wonders: “Where are the razors that these women are using? They’re all kind of hairless like eels. I’m like: ‘What’s going on? It’s completely mad.’”
In the movie, Robbie stars as Cathy Earnshaw, alongside Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff.
Fennell described the movie as a “sister, not a twin” of the classic Brontë novel, saying that she “couldn’t make [the original]. It’s so brilliant”.
