#edgar and isabella: cast

[shipcestuous]

I read your WordPress post on Wuthering Heights, and I'd like to point out that the actors playing Edgar and Isabella Linton in the 1970 version played love interests in the film Witchfinder General, made a few years earlier.

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Ooh, that's a very nice bit of trivia!

If/when I watch that version again, I'll have to watch Witchfinder General too, for kicks.

[restlessgem]

Every time I see a wuthering heights adaptation with a white Heathcliff, I always have to take a step back. Like did I read the book wrong or was he explicitly described as having dark skin. Isn’t the racism he experiences central to the plot and his character or am I losing it

[wutheringheightsfilm]

since this video essay (and it is an essay, i have cited sources! i have academic articles! get on my level youtubers!) is going to take a long time to make (i'm hoping to get it done in two weeks but we'll see...) and probably not enough of you will give a fuck about or have the time to fully watch what will most likely be upwards of an hour of content, here is a list of some things from the book wuthering heights i wish more adaptations would include:

since a lot of these adaptations ignore the Lockwood-Nelly storytelling framing device, we miss out on seeing a lot of Heathcliff's character as he is in the present, namely, what fascinates me is that while Lockwood is ill, Heathcliff not only sends him the last grouse of the season, but also visited Thrushcross Grange to sit at his bedside and talk to him

Catherine and Heathcliff actually trying to reckon with the abuse they face (it's a rare sight to see the abuse they face taken seriously on screen, see my prev meta post about their visit to Thrushcross Grange)

actual age appropriate castings. when you remember that a good third of this book, where a lot of the most famous stuff happens (the, he's more myself than i am, the i curse you to never rest while i still live, etc) is when these characters are all in their late teens and early 20s...yeah that makes a lot more sense now doesn't it?

on that note, stop casting Nelly as a woman in her late 50s/early 60s, she's literally the same age as Hindley and at her oldest is no older than like 42.

the fact that Nelly's storytelling is extremely biased--she does not like Catherine and thinks her a bad person, and she doesn't like Heathcliff either. how much of this is real? literally the things i would give to see a version of wuthering heights that explores what might be real and what isn't...

to compound on that, i want a version that actually shows the small little interludes where Nelly stops telling Lockwood the story and says something about the present day!!! GIVE ME THE NELLY FRAMING DEVICE!!! WHY WOULD THE 1992 MOVIE CREATE A FAKE EMILY BRONTE FRAMING DEVICE WHEN THERE'S ALR-

When Heathcliff is visiting the grange on the day that Catherine is mean to Isabella and making fun of her for having a crush on Heathcliff, after Catherine tells Heathcliff Isabella is the heir to the Grange, whenever Catherine leaves the room, according to Nelly Heathcliff is just sitting there plotting and smiling to himself

When Edgar hears Catherine and Heathcliff fighting in the kitchen (ugh god the kitchen fight), while Catherine is still ranting at Heathcliff, she doesn't notice Edgar come into the room but Heathcliff does, to which he does an immediate "shut the fuck up" sort of motion and she immediately does shut the fuck up

WITH THAT, something that gets lost in the sauce all the time (due to too many screenwriters and directors playing up the "romance" between these two) is Heathcliff and Catherine teaming up constantly, even in the later years of their relationship. The more "casual" elements of their relationship get lost. For example, while in that same fight in the kitchen, Catherine and Heathcliff both make fun of Edgar for being a pussy and that's hilarious! Because despite the strife that's going on between Heathcliff and Catherine, they are still on the same page and still feel united against that stupid rich pompous idiot they've been making fun of since they were teens.

The fact that these characters are products of their environment is something that no filmmaker (except maybe Andrea Arnold in the 2011 version) really grapples with to any extent

Most of the movies either miss or downplay or rush the scene where Hindley is planning to shoot Heathcliff one night, and Isabella goes to the window to warn him, literally saying "You better seek shelter somewhere else tonight! Mr. Earnshaw has a mind to shoot you!" (after saying that Heathcliff "ought to stretch [himself] over [Catherine's] grave and die like a dog") and Heathcliff is like "open the door you stupid bitch!" (not a direct quote but might as well be) and Isabella is like "oh! okay! come in and get shot then if you please, I've done my duty!" and leaves him out there to break the door down on his own. Wuthering Heights is a comedy and they don't tell you this. It's one of Isabella's best moments and we rarely see it, along with her second best moment, her throwing her wedding ring from Heathcliff in the fire

More adaptations need to have Heathcliff pulling out the actual physical almanac page he's kept with days marking when Catherine hangs out with the Lintons vs hanging out with him

[gch1995]

I always find it hilarious how often casting directors of Wuthering Heights film adaptations portray Ellen “Nelly” Dean as this elderly housekeeper next to Catherine Earnshaw, Hindley Earnshaw, Heathcliff, Edgar Linton, and Isabella Linton because that’s not who she is in the book at all.

In actuality, she’s about the same age as Hindley Earnshaw, who was only around 27-28 years old when he died, due to alcoholism. She’s only roughly six years older than Heathcliff and eight years older than Catherine Earnshaw/Linton Sr. She was only 14 years old when Mr. Earnshaw brought Heathcliff to Wuthering Heights, and they met. She was only in between her early-mid 20s when Cathy Sr accepted Edgar Linton’s proposal, and Heathcliff ran away after overhearing about how “it would degrade [Catherine] to marry him.” She was only in her late-twenties when Cathy Sr and Hindley Earnshaw died.

By the time we get into the second generation coming of age, Nelly’s story to Mr. Lockwood about these fucked up people she’s known and worked for from these two families since she was a child, Edgar Linton’s death, Isabella Linton’s death, Heathcliff’s death, and Cathy Linton Jr’s and Hareton Earnshaw’s engagement/upcoming marriage, Nelly is between her early-mid 40s.

At the end of the novel, Nelly has still just barely approached the beginning of “middle age” by the time Heathcliff and all this family drama surrounding the Earnshaws and Lintons. It’s why it just cracks me up how she’s always portrayed as this much more cynical and mature elderly lady in nearly every film. I guess, her being everyone else’s caretaker/servant everyone else’s favorite confidant, and her practical makes her attitude and personality comes across as someone you’d expect to be much older than her actual years

Granted, they also have often cast actors and actresses who are between their late-twenties to mid-thirties to portray Heathcliff and Cathy Sr as teenagers to early twenties. Of course, it’s also not uncommon for many people between their late-twenties to thirties, and sometimes even early 40s, to still get physically mistaken for being between their late-teens to mid-twenties since those are still fairly young years in adulthood, too. Juliet Binoche looked to be her actual age of 28 years old when she played the much younger 14-18 year old Cathy Sr and Cathy Jr Earnshaw/Linton, though.

Ralph Fiennes is actually my favorite actor’s portrayal of Heathcliff. I think he captured the anger, the charisma, the instability, the moodiness, the mystery, the obsessiveness, and the vague underlying sense of sympathy in Heathcliff the best. Physically, Ralph Fiennes is a white Caucasian actor, but to the the costume/make up department’s credit, they did have him wear a black wig and tan his skin enough to make him come across as mixed Romani in descent for this movie. Yeah, Nelly says his skin is “blacker than the devil,” but we also know that England was a very racist country towards outsiders who were not of pure white Anglo Saxon British descent back then, so Heathcliff could have been a lighter shade of tan than she said or he could have been dark brown. We don’t get a clear answer.

I also do love this scene of him talking to Nelly about being tired of getting revenge at the end of the 1992 Wuthering Heights film adaptation. They both appear to be around the right ages from the book here, and I love Nelly’s exasperated “Oh, for God’s sake…Can you please, stop staring like that!” She is so over and done with Heathcliff’s crazy bullshit, and the actress portraying Nelly here portrays that so well!

[queenlucythevaliant]

In Defense of Wuthering Heights

This is not an “I can make him worse” book. It’s a “we can make each other better in the face of tremendous pressure to do otherwise” book. I promise. 

I’ve already written extensively about my love for Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and while I love lots of other Brontë books with all my heart, what I really want to do tonight is try to make you fall in love with Emily’s Wuthering Heights (generally the most divisive Brontë novel among modern readers) the way that I did.

The thing that a lot of people don’t know which I really think ought to be printed on all the dust jackets is that the Brontë sisters were the daughters of a revered. They were PKs and it totally shows.  

So Wuthering Heights is not a romance; it’s a family tragedy. Specifically, it’s an astonishingly hopeful book about generational trauma. 

Heathcliff is Mr. Earnshaw’s bastard son. This is never explicitly stated, but it is implied so heavily that it might as well be. To boot, Mr. Earnshaw favors Heathcliff over his legitimate son, Hindley. When Mr. Earnshaw dies, Heathcliff is immediately and violently cast out of the family and forced into servitude. Mr. Earnshaw’s hidden infidelity is Wuthering Heights’s original sin.

Of course, Cathy and Heathcliff love each other, but it’s a violent and destructive like-recognizes-like kind of love between two people who, on the one hand, absolutely should not be together and, on the other, totally deserve each other. They’re capital T Tragic and capital R romantic: co-dependent, sharp-toothed sibling-lovers who don’t understand their own relationship as kids because their father lied to them. That lack of understanding follows them into adulthood; they don’t really know how to make sense of what they feel for one another, but boy do they feel it. 

Cathy tells Nellie “I am Heathcliff” and “He’s more myself than I am” and “whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same,” and it’s half a reaction to the fact that one of her brothers (Hindley) has cast her other brother (Heathcliff) out of the family with a vengeance and half a statement of the fact that although she doesn’t know what Heathcliff is to her, she doesn’t know how to live without him. And while Cathy’s love for Heathcliff definitely fills romantic roles once they’re adults, it’s doesn’t really read as sexual. To use Lewis’s parlance: it’s not eros/gift-love, but rather need-love in the most emphatic sense. It’s storge. Actually, it’s really posessive storge that thinks it’s eros. Hence the problem. 

From the other side, Heathcliff is an outsider from the moment he enters the story. He’s an intruder and a presumed bastard. He’s coded as non-white, maybe Romani or similar. (Probably not actually African-black, but kudos to that one movie for at least making the attempt.) He’s… probably kind of a psychopath in that he displays cruelty to animals and then later on becomes a charismatic, manipulative monster. You can make a nature vs. nurture argument—Heathcliff is definitely on the receiving end of a lot of cruelty—but there’s also something Off about him and that too is othering. And after Mr. Earnshaw dies, Cathy is the one person who still loves him.

But of course, they can’t actually marry. On and off the page, that simply cannot be. Heathcliff runs away, Cathy marries Edgar Linton. They hurt each other badly in the process. Neither Heathcliff nor Cathy can escape the harm that Mr. Earnshaw began and Hindley perpetuated. Cathy dies, Heathcliff marries Isabella, and then things get really interesting.

Because the beating heart of Wuthering Heights, the place where you can profoundly see the fingerprints of the reverend’s daughter, is in the third generation. Cathy and Heathcliff devour each other in life and in death, but the children survive. They forgive. The patriarch died without knowing what he had wrought on his children, the second generation died in anguish, but the third makes it out. Or at least Hareton and Cathy II do.

Cathy’s daughter is named for her mother. Heathcliff’s son by Isabella Linton is named Linton Heathcliff. Heathcliff forces Hareton, Hindley’s son and the only one among the third generation not named for his parents, to live in the same debasement that Hindley once forced on him: he denies Hareton any education and forces him into servitude while simultaneously courting his admiration. In essence, Cathy and Heathcliff implore the next generation to go on living their parents’ tragedy and it. Doesn’t. Work.

Heathcliff tries to force them both into awful situations in which they must act out his trauma, his revenge, to go on perpetuating the pain and bitterness. And at first, it looks like they’re going to play their parts. For a time, they’re as awful to each other as everyone else is.

But then they change. Hareton tries to stand up for Cathy II while she’s essentially being held captive as part of Heathcliff’s 12-Step Revenge Plot. Cathy teaches Hareton to read. She laughs at him, but when she realizes that she’s hurting his pride she apologizes and learns to be patient.  

“I didn’t know you took my part,” she answered, drying her eyes; “and I was miserable and bitter at everybody; but now I thank you, and beg you to forgive me: what can I do besides?”

And after this, they both stand up to Heathcliff. They say, “This ends here. This far and no farther.” Heathcliff is their dragon and they face him together. And when everyone else is dead in grand, tragic fashion, Cathy II and Hareton are left living.

But it’s not just that Hareton and Cathy II survive. They specifically un-do the failings of the previous generations. There’s a kind of atonement to it. They’re honest with each other, unlike Mr. Earnshaw. Cathy recognizes Hareton’s humanity, something Hindley never did for Heathcliff. Hareton lets go of his bitterness and resentment, while Heathcliff let his fester into cruelty and Elaborate Revenge. Cathy II is willful, like her mother, but she is also kind. Hareton is proud, like his father, but he is also compassionate. They forgive each other, while Cathy and Heathcliff only ever held grudges.

At the beginning of the book, Cathy is dead and has explicitly not gone to heaven; with the Brontës, you’ve gotta take these things seriously. Cathy is not in heaven and Heathcliff is a monster and they both seem to be damned, but they do not succeed in damning their children. And in that (I would say because of that), even Cathy and Heathcliff find peace after death.

I also do think that the fact that the story is narrated by Lockwood (weirded out by all of this) and Nellie (unreliable, cares deeply about everyone involved) can make it difficult to see the redemptive arc in the story as clearly as we might if it had an omniscient narrator, or if, say Cathy II was narrating. We're presented the Cathy and Heathcliff love story as this great, horrible, compelling saga (and it absolutely is), but then the following generation can almost seem like a footnote. They're adapted out of most of the film adaptations. But they're the whole point!

I do get why Wuthering Heights just isn’t to some people’s taste. Really. Some people just don’t go for Big Romantic Family Tragedy and that’s fine. But too many people come to the Brontës looking for Jane Austen or Elizabeth Gaskell and that’s just. Wrong. You’ve gotta at least read Wuthering Heights on its own terms before deciding that you hate it (not directed at anyone specific on here, but I do know people irl...). And you really ought to read it with an eye towards Emily’s faith. It makes a world of difference.

TL;DR- There’s a beautiful, very Christian center to Wuthering Heights and it’s one of forgiveness instead of revenge and kindness instead of cruelty. It’s a book about people who are destroyed by the sins of their fathers and those that manage not to be. In a way, it’s almost a fairytale.

[ravenkings]

wuthering heights fan cast:

dev patel as heathcliff

olivia cooke as catherine earnshaw

sam riley as hindley earnshaw

joe alwyn as edgar linton

lucy boynton as isabella linton

samantha morton as nelly dean

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☔Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it? If so, what is it?

Please allow me to introduce you to my self indulgent Shakespeare AU!

It would basically be an Actor AU that is also my apology to Luke for what I did to him in TUAP as well as a place to put all my Shakespeare love and knowledge.

The concept is the characters working as actors in a summer Shakespeare festival out on Long Island (if you've seen the TV show Slings and Arrows, it's a bit like that, but by no means a direct AU). It would take place over a rehearsal period and summer production season, as Percy and Annabeth slowly reconnect and fall in love, despite not having any on-stage romantic moments.

The backstory is, Percy and Annabeth met as kids at the adjacent theater camp for the festival, and returned year after year. They grew apart in college, as Annabeth went to Yale for drama (disappointing her Harvard family), and Percy stayed in New York. He went to City College and took additional acting classes (fuck NYU, he did not go to NYU. No way he's paying for that). This is her second year performing in the festival, but Percy's sixth year or so. The year before, she was Cordelia in King Lear, Isabella in Measure for Measure, and Celia in As You Like It. Percy was Casio, Edgar, and Orlando. They've never played romantic partners (In MFM, they were brother and sister).

This year, their characters actually have very little on-stage time together, but they still find time to reconnect through rehearsals. There was some spark the summer before, but they were mostly getting reacquainted. This year, they're already starting out closer friends, and now is the perfect time for more to start stirring between them. Show-mance ensues.

The summer of the fic, they are doing the full Second Henriad (Richard II, Henry IV parts one and two, and Henry V).

Percy is Hal/Henry V, and it's his first summer a major star for the festival, and he's hoping this will really jump start his professional performance career, and get him into bigger festivals and New York shows. He is basically the lead for three of the four shows, and has the longest arc. It's also a role with lots of complex daddy issues, so he kills it. And he gets to sword fight. He's great at stage combat.

Luke is Richard II, Hotspur, and the French dauphin. He's a bigger star, but he has come back to the smaller festival to be Richard II and Hotspur, two of his dream roles. In this AU, he's much more of a big brother figure to both Percy and Annabeth. Although, he does tend to get cast as antagonists.

"Last year I was Angelo in Measure for Measure and Edmund in King Lear, and this year I'm Hotspur. What is it about me that screams villain? Antagonist?" Luke asked.

"Facial scar," Annabeth said simply at the same moment that Percy hit him with: "Blond."

Also Luke playing a character named "Henry Percy" does cause constant confusion, given that Henry V is irl a Percy.

Annabeth plays all the major women: Anne of Bohemia, Katherine Percy (Hotspur's wife), and the French princess Katherine. (Originally she was going to be the production dramaturg, but that is simply to close to my dissertation research, and it would get a little too specific for a fanfiction).

She spends the whole summer complaining about the choice to do a series of plays with a dearth of female characters. Despite this, she is the only principal actor with a role in all four shows ("Hardly a principal actor! You have more lines in 1 Henry IV than I have in all four plays combined!"). While she does have a role in all four shows, this is certainly a downgrade from the characters she got to play the year before. ("We could have at least added Merry Wives of Windsor!")

This does mean Annabeth technically gets to play Percy's wife, but it's hardly the great on-stage romance they could have had if she'd landed the role of Rosalind in As You Like It, opposite his Orlando. And she's still mad she didn't get Rosalind. She thought she'd be perfect for it. But Chiron wanted her as Isabella more.

[mermaidsirennikita]

yes on dev but i would swap out olivia for elle fanning or emma corrin i don't need them to cast an 18 year old just someone who can pass for that

I think it's a tall order to cast someone who can pass for 18 in reality, and they would most likely have to age everyone up on some level because Heathcliff especially lives well beyond Catherine (and Isabella), and a good while past Edgar. The book begins around the early 1770s and ends about 30 years later, and I don't think that someone with Heathcliff's vibe would translate to audiences as "suddenly successful after a three-year absence" at like... 20.

So for me, the issue with Margot isn't her being able to pass for 18, so much as it is a) her being a woman who just really has a solidly mature vibe, which is NOT AT ALL BAD, I should add, it's just kind of antithetical to Cathy, who doesn't even have a mature personality b) her really just... not being being at all gothic.

I love Elle and I think this is a role she'd be good in in theory. But in reality, I don't really want an actress who isn't English in this role. Purely a matter of taste. But, I also don't think that she or Emma have the vibe that I would personally want in a Cathy. Cathy is this very Gothic-coded, dark-haired, wild creature of a woman with a somewhat ghostly quality even before she dies. She's not conventionally feminine for her era before she marries Linton. She's ... kind of a freak. Spoiled, bratty, also given this air of being separate from society and civilization... until she feels she has to be within it.

And I like that Olivia is northern, which obviously isn't strictly necessary for Cathy, but is definitely a cool aspect. I mean, I definitely think there is a lot of interesting English-classism-specific stuff going on with Cathy's motivation for marrying Linton.

So it'll never be any of these women because we'll have to wait a min of 10 years before anyone tries this again after Emerald, but I think Olivia Cooke would've worked extremely well, especially if this was made a few years ago.

Like, on a practical "she has been cast level" Margot's age is definitely an issue, but even if she was the perfect age... she's a bad choice for Cathy.

[findmeinthespacebetween]

Descendants Fan Cast

( Parents )

( reposted from my main blog now that I have a descendants specific sideblog, with some characters that I forgot the first time! ) – I’m not recasting anyone from canon, just live action casting for Wicked World & Isle Of The Lost characters!  If I’ve forgotten anyone, or if there’s any interest in parent-casting, lmk because I had a lot of fun doing this!  Special shoutout to @humaudrey​ for helping me decide between a couple of options!

Feel free to use any of these ideas if they help you!  I’d appreciate credit but it’s not really necessary, but if you do use them please tag me or send me a link so that I can see what other people come up with!

I have my own collection of descendants characters ( part 1 / part 2 / desktop ) so some of my castings were based around my own collection of descendants kids (not reusing faces I used for mine & wanting them to work as siblings to some I’ve made) but without further ado, here we go!

Ally; daughter of Alice ( Skylar Samuels )

Anthony Tremaine; son of Anastasia Tremaine ( Ross Butler )

Arabella; niece to Ariel ( Emily Rudd )

Ariana Rose; niece to Aurora ( Jessica Sula )

Artie Pendragon; son of Arthur ( Joel Courtney – alternate: Jordan Fisher )

Big Murph; pirate ( Will Poulter )

CJ Hook; daughter of Captain Hook ( Madison Iseman )

Claudine Frollo; daughter of Claude Frollo ( Josephine Langford )

Clay Clayton; son of Clayton ( Froy Gutierrez )

Diego De Vil; nephew to Cruella De Vil ( Justice Smith )

Eddie Balthazar; son of Edgar Balthazar ( Tanner Buchanan )

Freddie Facilier; daughter of Dr Facilier ( Letitia Wright )

Gaston “Trois” Legume the Third; son of Gaston ( Rudy Pankow )

Gaston Legume Junior; son of Gaston ( Joe Keery )

Ginny Gothel; daughter of Mother Gothel ( Alexa Demie )

Hadie; son of Hades ( Asher Angel )

Harold “Harry” Badun; son of Horace ( Aria Shahghasemi )

Harriet Hook; daughter of Captain Hook ( Samara Weaving )

Herkie; son of Hercules & Megara ( Tyler Posey )

Hermie Bing; daughter of the Ringmaster ( Madison Reyes )

Jade; niece to Jafar ( Fivel Stewart )

Jason “Jace” Badun; son of Jasper ( Diego Tinoco )

Jordan; daughter of the Genie ( Maitreyi Ramakrishnan )

“Li’l” Li Shang Jr; son of Mulan & Li Shang ( Ludi Lin )

LeFou Deux; son of LeFou ( Ty Simpkins )

Mad Maddy; granddaughter of Mad Madame Mim ( Peyton List )

Reza; son of Agrabah’s Astronomer ( Avan Jogia )

Rick Ratcliffe; son of Governor Ratcliffe ( Noah Schnapp )

Ruby Fitzherbert; daughter of Rapunzel & Flynn Rider / Eugene Fitzherbert ( Sydney Sweeney )

Sammy Smee; son of Smee ( Jack Dylan Grazer )

Sophie; apprentice to Yen Sid ( Millie Bobby Brown ) 

Yzla; daughter of Yzma ( Isabella Gomez )

Zevon; son of Yzma ( Alberto Rosende )

[miscelliteeous]

The Muppets Wuthering Heights

Please, I need this.

Catherine Earnshaw: Miss Piggy in a brown wig Heathcliff: Dev Patel (the only human in the cast) Edgar Linton: Kermit Lockwood: Gonzo Nelly Dean: Fozzie (playing Fozzie Dean, a male version) Isabella Linton: Janice Hindley Earnshaw: Sam the Eagle(? not 100% sure on this one) Cathy Linton: Miss Piggy in a blonde wig Hareton Earnshaw: Rowlf Linton Heathcliff: Robin Frog Joseph: Statler and Waldorf (they're a duo so maybe one is his brother? A Marley and Marley type thing)

[literatureismyentirepersonality]

I’ve just watched the 1939 Wuthering Heights and umm... well... that... Can I even call that Wuthering Heights? I feel like this is one of the many unfortunate pieces of media that created Wuthering Heights as the romance it decidedly is not.

I’d like to say I found Laurence Olivier overly innocent in his portrayal of Heathcliff, but I don’t think there’s any sense in comparing the two. He played the lovelorn romantic hero well enough, and that seems to be what he was told to play.

It was weird seeing Isabella and Catherine cast almost as villains. The tension between the two of them felt like a bigger plot point than Heathcliff and Hindley ever did, and Heathcliff saying out loud that he was going to get revenge every so often cheapened his side of the action a great deal.

They also just kind of forgot about Hindley and Edgar at the end? How did Heathcliff get Thrushcross Grange? Presumably when Edgar died, it went to Isabella and thus to Heathcliff, but this wasn’t very clear. The film wanted to be a cautionary tale against Cathy’s ‘worldliness’ and I guess it did that, at the expense of wilfully butchering the novel.

Flora Robson was excellent to watch though, even if Nelly was utterly watered down.

[77angelnumbers77]

Going insane over the concept of a VrisRezi Wuthering Heights AU

Niche content and WH spoilers below the cut. It's been out for a while now but better safe than sorry, and the writing doesn't make a lot of sense either way since I'm so tired.

This is such niche content but I need to write this down.

Heathcliffe: Vriska

Catherine: Terezi

Edgar Linton: Karkat

Isabella Linton: Tavros

Hindley: Male Aranea? Less alcoholism and more manipulation here. There needs to be a way for Vriska to put Aranea in debt. Also, I doubt Aranea would make Vriska work in the fields. This one needs workshopping so as not to run into OOC bits!! I definitely have wiggle room

Still thinking about the second generation! After a certain point it doesn't matter as much to me because Terezi dies. Vriska could work as Catherine as well, but I see Terezi as less spiteful and more manipulative, which is why I casted them the way I did.

The idea of Vriska fuming because Terezi left her behind . . . the raging jealousy . . . going absolutely insane over this. "I'm the only one who knows she's not who she says she is". Going after Tavros just to be able to see Terezi again because she's consumed Vriska's every waking thought. Godddddddd 😭

I'll expand on this tomorrow to explain some components to those less versed in Wuthering Heights.

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Joy

Rating: PG-13

Director: David O. Russell

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramírez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, Isabella Rossellini, Dascha Polanco, Elisabeth Röhm, Susan Lucci, Laura Wright, Maurice Benard, Donna Mills, Jimmy Jean-Louis

Release year: 2015

Genres: comedy, drama, history

Blurb: A struggling Long Island single mom becomes one of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs.

[blinditcms]

HALEY KENNEDY on the cover of this week’s most recent tabloid! many say that the age 26 YEAR OLD looks like DAISY EDGAR - JONES, but i don’t really see it. while  the ACTRESS / INFLUENCER is known for being PROFESSIONAL my inside sources say that they have a tendency to be TOXIC. i swear, every time i think of them, i hear the song YOUNG ONES –– DI-RECT

BASIC INFORMATION:

name: haley kennedy. nicknames: hales. pronouns: she/her. gender: cis woman. age: twenty - six. date of birth: august 2nd, ‘96. place of birth: los angeles, california. astrological sign: leo. orientation: bisexual.

APPEARANCE:

height: five foot six. hair colour: brown. eye colour: brown. wardrobe style: following trends , but nothing particularly stand-out. tattoos: has a small K on the inside of her ankle. piercings: ears.

HEALTH:

physical ailments: n/a. mental ailments: anxiety disorder. alcohol use: socially. drug use: none. addictions: none.

PERSONALITY:

positive traits: professional , generous , creative , determined. negative traits: perfectionist , push-over , overemotional. mbti: ISTP-T.

ACTIVITIES & SKILLS:

skills: piano , acting , singing , transposing music , chess , golfing. weaknesses: confrontation , dancing , overthinks. languages spoken: english.

FAMILY:

father: jonathan kennedy ( alive ) mother: kathy kennedy ( alive ) siblings: diamond kennedy , isabella kennedy , johnny kennedy , jordana kennedy , mackenzie kennedy. other family: maiya kennedy ( niece ) , micah kennedy ( nephew ) , graham lawrence ( ex - brother in law ) , christian o'malley ( ex - brother in law ).  pets: oz ( male australian shepherd , 1.5 years old )

BACKGROUND : ( tw: domestic abuse , assault , miscarriage ) 

growing up in perhaps the second most famous family in america was , in one word , overwhelming. haley was only six when the cameras entered their home and refused to leave , documenting every minute of every day and every tiny accomplishment. spending time with family became monetised. it became a competition , not just getting the attention from the cameras , but getting attention from their parents. she dedicated herself to music , learning to play the piano , take singing lessons ... but as she grew up , that wasn't enough. haley had always been a daddy's girl , but with the cameras coming in , the more often jonathan kennedy sr. could be found on the golf course. so she did too. 

haley followed the rules because she wanted to be liked , and in doing that ... she was forgettable and rather unpopular on the show. people didn't care about what was going on with her , which came with one positive – she got some privacy. out of all of her siblings , her life was probably the most normal. she could go to rehearsals for school musicals without getting followed around , more often focusing on johnny's partying or diamond's wedding rather than her high school producation of grease. 

upon finishing high school , she was accepted into julliard to study musical theater , but before she could start , she was cast as zoe murphy in the original washington run of dear evan hansen and eventually on broadway. people shouted that it was a nepotism decision , but when the cast album released and nominations came rolling in for the musical , few critics could deny that she was talented. doing six shows a week in new york city , however , meant that she was barely home , and people started separating haley kennedy from the kennedy clan –– and she didn't mind it. 

after her run as zoe murphy in dear evan hansen , she took over the role of jenna in waitress. this is where she met her , soon to be long - term , boyfriend matt davenport. they dated for two years before moving in together in 2022 , when haley was painted green for the first time and took over elphaba in wicked. however , it wasn't the only thing that saw green. the attention she was getting , with his career stagnant , was souring the relationship. when they finally unpacked the final box in november 2022 , he proposed and she accepted.

as soon as they were engaged , however , he became controlling , wanting her to come straight home from performances and refusing to let her see friends. similar to the role she'd played in waitress , arguments became constant , matt laying hands on her on several occasions. covering bruises before she went to perform became a daily occurance and having stepped away from the family , she didn't dare reach out to them for help. matt announced her pregnancy on instagram in early march , at six weeks pregnant when no one but the two of them knew. 

not but a month later , reports came out that haley had been admitted to mount sinai hospital in the early hours of the morning , after paparazzi had caught the couple arguing on their way home. as soon as she was deemed fit to leave , she took the first flight back to los angeles.

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Jennifer Lawrence in Joy (David O. Russell, 2015)

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez, Diane Ladd, Virginia Madsen, Isabella Rossellini, Dascha Polenco, Elisabeth Röhm, Susan Lucci. Screenplay: David O. Russell, Annie Mumolo, Cinematography: Linus Sandgren. Production design: Judy Becker. Film editing:  Alan Baumgarten, Jay Cassidy, Tom Cross, Christopher Tellefsen. Music: David Campbell, West Dylan Thordson.

A thoroughly conventional movie with an exceptional cast that features what seems to be the core of writer-director David O. Russell's stock company, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, Joy is the kind of feel-good underdog-against-the-odds movie with screwball touches that could have been made at almost any time in Hollywood history. I can easily imagine it in the 1940s with Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray, for example. Joy Mangano (Lawrence) was a brilliant student in high school, but she didn't go on to college, and now struggles to make ends meet, while dabbling with ideas for inventions. A divorcee, she lives in an unusual household: In addition to her two children and her grandmother (Diane Ladd), the ménage also includes Joy's mother (Virginia Madsen), who spends her days in bed watching soap operas, and Joy's ex-husband (Edgar Ramirez), who lives in the basement. Joy's father (Robert De Niro) also joins the household after splitting from his latest wife, but he soon takes up with Trudy, a wealthy widow (Isabella Rossellini). When Joy comes up with the idea for a self-wringing mop, Trudy agrees to help finance it. Joy has to contract the manufacture of some of the mop's parts, and she struggles to market it until the idea comes to sell it on TV. She approaches the QVC shopping channel, where an executive, Neil Walker (Cooper), takes an interest in the product. It becomes a big seller, but then the company Joy contracted to make the parts claims ownership of the design. Facing bankruptcy, Joy fights the claim, wins, and becomes a huge success, marketing other household products. There's a real-life Joy Mangano on whose story the film is based, with the usual disregard for accuracy. Lawrence got an Oscar nomination for her performance, which is, as always, wonderful. She gives the film more than it deserves, and the supporting cast measures up to her. But there are few surprises in the story or in Russell's treatment of it, unlike his previous films with Lawrence and Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and American Hustle (2013).

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I don't think I've seen Danielle Galligan in anything. My first impression is her face seems so serious and mature which I don't think suits Catherine.

I think I've said it before, but I could be totally onboard with Dev Patel as Heathcliff.

Toby Regbo could be an excellent Edgar.

I have to admit Saoirse seems like a very out there casting for Isabella. I always figured Isabella would have a baby face like Edgar.

That's my fancast for wuthering heights

Danielle galligan as Catherine Earnshaw

Dev patel as Heathcliff

Toby regbo as Edgar Linton

Saoirse Ronan as Isabella Linton

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