Wuthering Heights intimacy coordinator explains lack of nudity in film

While it might have been overtaken at the box office by a kids’ film, Wuthering Heights is still leaving viewers divided.

From those Yorkshire accents from its lead stars to the opening scene, there’s a number of things being both loved and slammed.

I mean, people were divided pretty much from the moment the film’s trailer dropped with it clear Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel wasn’t going to be particularly traditional.

From BDSM hints to a lot of sex scene chat, many of us went into Wuthering Heights with some rather wild expectations. And so, it’s fair to say a lot of viewers were surprised to find that the film is pretty lacking in nudity.

When Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi were getting it on, the layers of costume didn’t come off, and the intimacy coordinator has explained why.

Well, it’s actually pretty simple anyway as Miriam Lucia told British Vogue there ‘just didn’t seem to be a place for it’.

The intimacy coordinator was actually pretty happy to see nudity not featuring as she continued: “It’s hugely sexual and very beautifully shot. But it’s almost like the set, the costumes, the sexuality, lust and passion were the players in this.

“So I think to strip off [would have] had very little to do with the tone of the film.”

Plus, it simply made it far easier for everyone involved – let’s not even think about how complicated, tedious and boring it would’ve been to see Elordi have to figure out getting all of Robbie’s bits of clothing off.

And anyway, many people say they didn’t even notice that there wasn’t much nudity, as the film seems so right without it.

Fennell also spoke about the film not needing nude scenes during an appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast.

The film has quite the lack of nudes. (Warner Bros)

The actor-turned-director said that she sees sex scenes ‘the same as any other’, adding: “Sex scenes are just romantic scenes, or they’re scenes about power, or they’re scenes about rage… they’re no different, it’s a power dynamic you’re looking at, it’s never about the thing that it’s about.”

She went on to add: “The movies I grew up with and the ways they used bodies and particularly the way they used female bodies, those were really explicit because often there was nudity and sex for absolutely no reason.

“I think that the trick for me is always about making people think that they’ve seen more than they have.”