- - “Wuthering Heights ”Director“ ”Emerald Fennell Jokes About Spending 'a Day Looking at Different Consistencies of Male Ejaculate'

Tommy McArdleFebruary 11, 2026 at 9:11 PM

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Emerald Fennell on Feb. 5, 2026; Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in Wuthering Heights

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Wuthering Heights director Emerald Fennell says she spent an entire day "looking at different consistencies of male ejaculate" while on the job

Fennell's last movie Saltburn featured sexually explicit scenes

Wuthering Heights, which stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, is in theaters Feb. 13

Wuthering Heights director Emerald Fennell is jokingly recalling a very strange day in her filmmaking career.

The writer and director, 40, described her attention to detail on a movie's set to an eyebrow-raising degree during a conversation with fellow filmmaker Baz Luhrmann for Interview magazine, published Tuesday, Feb. 10.

"I’m maniacally prescriptive about a lot of things," she shared to Luhrmann, 63. "I’m a psychotic details demon, but — well, it’s things like spending a whole day looking at different consistencies of male ejaculate."

"You’ll be looking at the drop, and you’ll be looking at the clarity," she added with a laugh. "Unfortunately, it’s part of the job, isn’t it?"

Fennell's adaptation of the classic 18th-century English novel stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie as the book's characters Heathcliff and Catherine, who become friends as children and gradually fall in love over the years, though they cannot be together due to their differing social statuses. The writer-director has said that her adaptation is "primal [and] sexual," in line with her previous movies Saltburn and Promising Young Woman.

Wuthering Heights poster

Warner Bros. Pictures

Fennell is no stranger to adding sexually provocative moments to her films. Saltburn, featured a scene in which Barry Keoghan's character drinks bathwater from a tub Elordi's character had just bathed in (and had a private moment of intimacy in), which the director told PEOPLE back in 2023 was "the sexiest thing I've ever seen in my life."

In fact, the director recently teased that Wuthering Heights features a similar sequence in which "something happens on a rock" while speaking to Variety about the movie. “I think people will know," she additionally hinted.

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Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in Wuthering Heights

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Fennell has spoken at length about her lifelong love for Wuthering Heights and its author Emily Brontë in the months leading up to the new movie's release. "The thing about an adaptation is you need to coexist with it and let it be the beautiful thing that it is. Nobody loves Emily Brontë more than I do," she said in Interview magazine. "I’m a creepy obsessive. But I also know you can’t do a fully faithful adaptation of this, because it would be too long and simply wouldn’t work as a movie."

Wuthering Heights also stars also stars Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell. The movie is in theaters Feb. 13.

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