Wuthering Heights walls were 'made from scans of Margot Robbie's skin'

Emerald Fennell revealed that she created part of the Wuthering Heights set using scans from Margot Robbie's skin.

Releasing tomorrow - just in time for Valentine's Day - the Saltburn director's horny take on the classic Emily Brontë novel has dominated headlines ever since it was announced back in July 2024.

From the non book-accurate castings of Barbie star Robbie and Jacob Elordi as the film's protagonists Catherine and Heathcliff, to the creative liberties she's taken with spicing up the original plot, it was clear that Fennell's adaptation was going to be very creative with its source material.

Fennell's creative approach to the film doesn't end there either, as the 40-year-old revealed she crafted Catherine's pastel pink bedroom from scans of Robbie's actual skin.

"We asked her to send us all her veins and her freckles, and then we printed it on silk, stuffed it and put latex over it so that it could sweat," Fennell explained during a screening of the film at the British Film Institute.

"At first glance, you don't see any of it," she continued.

"It's just a beautiful pink room."

So why did Fennell decide to create a space which upon first glance resembles a typical feminine bedroom, only for viewers to be left feeling a little creeped out after noticing moles and thread-like veins dotted about?

According to Fennell, it's a reflection of Robbie's character once she's married.

Upon first glance the bedroom seems rather normal (Warner Bros)

"It's a visual representation of what it feels like to be made a wife. To be made an object of beauty, to be a collector's item."

A bedroom wall that appears to be living, breathing and sweating? Only in an Emerald Fennell film.

The plush pink pad isn't the only wall which has the ability to 'sweat' either, with the dinning room in the Linton household also appear to be dripping with sweat.

"I think my favorite thing about the room is how it looks like there is really beautiful condensation—like the walls are sweating, but in a very beautiful way," Robbie explained to Architectural Digest, while production designer Suzie Davies added that Catherine's bedroom carpet and dressing table were also modelled off of Robbie's skin and hair respectively.

We promise that Margot Robbie was not harmed in the creation of this room (Warner Bros)

Sweating walls is certainly emblematic of Fennell's take on Wuthering Heights, which early reviews have picked up on the film's decision to lean heavily on erotica.

The Telegraph described the film as 'lurid, oozy and wild' while a review from Rolling Stone referred to the film as the 'horniest' literary adaptation ever made.

Perhaps not one to watch with your family then.

However, not all of the reviews are positive, with Collider describing the flick as being filled with 'exhausting sex scenes that overstay their welcome'.

Wuthering Heights releases in UK cinemas on 13 February.