So maybe you already know that someone has been playing closer attention to Wuthering Heights than I initially did with Jane Eyre.
In this miniature article published by my most favorite magazine, a vague, but to-the-point piece of news was revealed regarding the casting of Heathcliff for the new Wuthering Heights adaptation supposedly being released next year.
I'm not quite sure why, in the past, casting directors forgot that Heathcliff resembled a "dark-skinned gypsy," but this good Andrea Arnold is just about to make up for past losses (I'm talking about you, Ralph Fiennes).
Bam. Heathcliff is a black man from Leeds named James Howard, who appears to have been plucked out of thin air with nothing but a single picture floating about the Internet to give him any credit. Most importantly, he's a young guy, although that does make me think that perhaps this version won't carry on into the second generation, which… kind of sucks. They could, I suppose, use cruddy prosthetics on Howard, but I can't see that going particularly well. Hm.
Anyway, props to the director who isn't afraid of using unknown actors, and props to those people who know what a "dark-skinned" Heathcliff means. (Even though… not all gypsies are dark-skinned, and I actually pictured Healthcliff to have somewhat of a Middle Eastern flair to his looks, but… that's cool). Let's all be excited!
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