Margot Robbie’s Friends Went Feral for Jacob Elordi in ‘Wuthering Heights’

We are two weeks and one day away from the premiere of Emerald Fennell’s BDSM-fever-dream interpretation of Wuthering Heights. That means I am less than a month away from finally being able to turn off the trailer—and Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are in full press-tour mode.

This week, they each appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote the film, though Robbie definitely sold it a bit more. Honestly, I’m not even sure it matters if this film is good or not—as long as Elordi is on screen the entire time.

“It was the most unhinged experience of my life,” Robbie told Kimmel of screening the film for her friends. “Just to put this into context, 20 women were frothing at the mouth; they were like rabid dogs.”

She said her friends had thrown “Cathy” (the main character in Wuthering Heights; Elordi plays Heathcliff) a “bachelorette party” where the theme was “Victorian slutty.” She clarified it was the “funnest” Wednesday she’s “ever had in my life,” before continuing: “They were screaming so much, I was like ‘They’re missing most of the movie,’ but it wasn’t really watching a movie, it was like a call-and-response situation. There was constant commentary and screaming throughout, and sobbing at parts, as well.”

“[They were] drunk and screaming at the screen, and Jacob came on screen, and I think it registered on the Richter scale—they screamed so loud,” she said. “Honestly, I was like, if he walked in here right now, I think they would eat him.”

The next night, Elordi went on the show and got a little bashful when Kimmel relayed the story about her friends wanting to eat him. “I don’t know, what do you say to that?” he said, nervously laughing and shifting in his seat, which was cute. “She’s intense, yeah—her and her friends are intense.”

As someone who’s watched the trailer at least 2,000 times, it sounds like they had completely appropriate reactions to me.

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