Margot Robbie didn’t expect Jacob Elordi to become her comfort zone while filming ‘Wuthering Heights‘, but that’s exactly what happened.
The actress recently admitted she became surprisingly codependent with her costar Jacob Elordi while they were on set together, and at one point, she even felt completely unsettled when he wasn’t nearby. So, what happened in those early days of filming that made Robbie feel so attached so fast?
Margot Robbie Says Jacob Elordi Became Her Comfort Person While Filming
Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie star in director Emerald Fennell’s upcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, playing the intense lovers Catherine and Heathcliff. And going by Robbie’s latest comments, their connection did not stay limited to the script.
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In a cast interview with Fandango, Robbie admitted she gets emotionally attached to the people she works with. She said she becomes “so codependent” with her costars, and she is always the one who feels devastated when a project ends because she never wants it to be over.
Robbie also shared that she developed the same feeling toward Elordi, and that she did so “quite quickly.” She made it sound natural, like it happened before she even realised it, and Elordi’s presence on set started feeling like part of her routine.
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Robbie then opened up about what made their bond feel so real so early. She remembered that during the first couple of days on set, Elordi was constantly nearby while she worked. He was not interrupting her scenes or standing front and centre, but he stayed in the same area, watching quietly from a corner while she filmed as Cathy.
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Robbie even joked that she wasn’t sure if Emerald Fennell told him to do it or if Elordi chose to do it himself, because he stayed in her vicinity so often. Fennell, 40, quickly jumped in with a laugh and said she didn’t tell him to do that, and she actually had to ask him to leave.
Still, Robbie said that by the third day of filming, she noticed a change in herself. She caught herself looking around the set to find Elordi, almost without thinking. When she realised he wasn’t there watching this time, she said she felt unsettled and strangely lost.
That was when Robbie said she felt “unnerved and unmoored,” and she compared it to feeling “like a kid without their blanket,” because his presence had already started to feel comforting.
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