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Newby feels more bothered by some past adaptations that showed him as being white without reading the book
It was almost a default you won’t be taken seriously as a lead if he’s not white
Newby said Brontë deliberately keeps it ambiguous
Newby is not bothered by Elordi’s casting because Fennell has been explicit about the film being from her own perspective
A version of this article appears in print on Feb 14 2026 Section C Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline Who Is Heathcliff Here Are Theories
She dropped out of the project and explained on Instagram she had not read the book and should have paid more attention to all aspects of Zoe before accepting
After Odessa A’zion was hired for the forthcoming adaptation of Holly Brickley’s novel “Deep Cuts” there was an uproar because her character is described as half-Jewish half-Mexican and A’zion has no
“I think the thing is everyone who loves this book has such a personal connection to it and so you can only ever make the movie that you sort of imagined yourself when you read it” she said.
I felt Emily was not committing exactly she was playing with her own difference as a female.
Speaking at the Brontë Women’s Writing Festival Fennell said she thought Elordi “looked exactly like the illustration of Heathcliff” on the first copy she read.
Still the cast doesn’t lack diversity entirely.
Nelly is played by the Vietnamese American actress Hong Chau and Shazad Latif who is of Pakistani descent plays Edgar Linton.
In an interview with NPR Arnold said “In the book it was clear he wasn’t white-skinned”.
A notable exception is Andrea Arnold’s 2012 adaptation in which the adult Heathcliff was played by the Black actor James Howson.
Michie added the “dynamics of this novel are about otherness in various ways and that otherness is in Heathcliff”.
Reginald Watson has studied questions of Blackness in the works of the Brontës including Emily’s sister Charlotte the “Jane Eyre” author.
Oberon was South Asian but hid that to ascend in Hollywood at the time.
Patrick Brontë was associated with the abolitionist politician William Wilberforce who helped pay for Patrick to study at Cambridge.