Jennifer Aniston is getting in on the craze over Emerald Fennel’s Wuthering Heights film.
Anison, 57, shared a clip of she and Lisa Kudrow in an episode of Friends in which their characters (Rachel Green and Phoebe Buffay) take a literature class discussing Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights.
In the season 5, episode 9 clip, Green arrives to the class without having done the required reading, asking Buffay to explain the plot to her.
“It’s this tragic love story between Cathy and Heathcliff, and it takes place on these really creepy moors in England, which I think represent the wildness of Heathcliff’s character. I totally get symbolism,” Buffay says in relaying the plot.
On Instagram. Aniston joked that she wouldn’t have to read the book now that the film version is making headlines.
“Thanks to Margot and Jacob, no reading required 😬👀,” Aniston added in the caption.
Filmmaker Fennell has made clear that her movie is a decidedly loose adaptation of the classic 19th-century source material.
In January, the writer-director said in a Fandango interview,”The book means so much to me,” adding, “it’s very important that everyone who loves it as much as I do feels almost a part of it.”
However, added Fennell, “The thing for me is you can’t adapt a book as dense and complicated and difficult as this book— I can’t say I’m making Wuthering Heights. It’s not possible. What I can say is I’m making a version of it.”
Fennell, who won an Oscar for writing 2020’s Promising Young Woman, further explained that her Wuthering Heights movie is inspired by a version she “remembered reading” as a 14 year old that “isn’t quite real” — a version “where I wanted stuff to happen that never happened” in the story.
“So,” she said, “It is Wuthering Heights, but it isn’t.”
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Emily Brontë’s novel, published in 1847, tells the forbidden, tragic romance between Catherine and Heathcliff. It’s been adapted several times for film and television, with the latest interpretation from Fennell starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as the leads.
