Oscar-winning writer-director Emerald Fennell has described her new big-screen take on Wuthering Heights as "scary, devastating, sexy and difficult".
Speaking to RTÉ 2FM's Emma Power, Fennell said she first came to Emily Brontë’s novel as a teenager and expected to be unimpressed, but instead found herself "emotionally disembowelled" by it.
"This book I opened up with an eye roll, as you do as a teenager… and this book I did not expect to [be] emotionally disembowelled by," she said, describing it as an experience that "kind of gets you unlike anything else".
Fennell added that Brontë’s writing still has the power to hit hard nearly two centuries on: "The thing about Emily Brontë is that she is making us feel something 200 years later. It’s scary, it’s sexy, it’s devastating, it’s difficult."
Fennell’s film, a new adaptation of the 1847 Gothic classic, stars Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, and has been released in Irish cinemas with a 15A certificate.
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