Jacob Elordi says filming Wuthering Heights in London left him ‘depressed’ - The Independent

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Jacob Elordi has recalled how he became depressed while filming Wuthering Heights during the bleak British winter.

The 29-year-old Australian played Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s blockbuster, which was primarily filmed across the Yorkshire Dales from mid-January to late March 2025.

In an interview with Vogue Australia, Elordia opened up about the impact of the weather on his mental health.

“First of all, I started in January. I hadn’t done London like that before,” he said.

“I didn’t expect to get so out of sorts. Waking up every day, its so dark and so cold. I think I was base-level depressed.”

Elordi compared the experience to working on Fennell’s earlier comedy thriller, Saltburn, which was shot at the University of Oxford and in Northamptonshire from July 2022.

“When we shot Saltburn, it was that one summer where the sun was out the whole time,” he said.

Elordi also revealed that he questioned whether he was “good enough” to portray Heathcliff in the adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel.

“Saltburn allowed for a lot of improv. There’s a language to [Wuthering Heights] you can’t really step around,” he said.

“I think I also knew what [Fennell] wanted from Heathcliff, and I really wanted to be able to bring it.

“On Saltburn, I could be whoever I wanted.

“But because she had asked me to make [Wuthering Heights], she just texted me and said, ‘Will you do this?’ It was the first time I’d been like, ‘I don’t know if I’m good enough.’”

Next, Elordi is set to star in a remake of The Executioner’s Song, based on Norman Mailer’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

It was originally brought to the big screen in 1982, starring Tommy Lee Jones.

The film ventures deep into the heart of American violence, media frenzy and loneliness.

Elordi will play convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, who insists on being executed after killing two men in Utah, and will also have a hands-on producing role for the first time in his career.

United Artists have acquired the rights to the project, with Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt producing for the company alongside Elordi, his manager Matt Vioral and Sherry Marsh.