Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” is a polarizing movie, with /Film’s own review warning that followers of Emily Brontë’s unique novel might want to “throw out the ebook fully as a way to benefit from the film.” Nonetheless, there isn’t any denying that Fennell delivered the primary huge film of 2026. This can be a film with attractive manufacturing design, lavish units with some fascinating decor decisions straight out of a Tim Burton film (the fireside made out of palms, anybody?), and an amazing forged.
Certainly, “Wuthering Heights” is stuffed with identified faces. Positive, Margot Robbie as Cathy Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff are prominently featured on the poster and promotional materials, however there’s extra — from Hong Chau as Nelly to Shazad Latif as Edgar. Eagle-eyed viewers could have acknowledged “Adolescence” star Owen Cooper as young Heathcliff. These with even higher eyes, nonetheless, could have seen Ewan Mitchell as Joseph, and acknowledged him from a success HBO present.
Within the movie, Joseph is a servant at Wuthering Heights who’s working there from earlier than Heathcliff is dropped at the property till lengthy after Cathy’s father passes away. His primary function in Fennell’s reimagining of the movie is to reveal Cathy to BDSM for the primary time when she sees Joseph and one other servant, Zillah (Amy Morgan), having a steamy scorching session in a barn late at night time.
Most probably, nonetheless, Ewan Mitchell appears acquainted as a result of he performs everybody’s favourite silvery-blond-haired psychopath, Aemond Targaryen in “Home of the Dragon.”
Ewan Mitchell went from Home of the Dragon to Wuthering Heights
In “House of the Dragon,” Ewan Mitchell plays Aemond as essentially an anime character. In any case, the trope of the scarred, white-haired character who’s each a sadist and a badass is nicely documented — from Griffith in “Berserk” to Vicious in “Cowboy Bebop.” Aemond is sort of a caricature: a mustache-twirling villain who appears incapable of pretending he’s something however sadism incarnate. He is solely actually been part of the present for a couple of season and a half, after the large time-skip late in season 1, however Mitchell immediately grew to become one of the crucial memorable components of “Home of the Dragon.”
It helps that Mitchell has a naturally sinister look in his eyes. Even in “Wuthering Heights,” the place he performs a non-threatening man who merely does his job, is head over heels in love, and appears genuinely completely happy to see Cathy and Heathcliff, you possibly can’t shake the sensation that he is one unhealthy day away from murdering everybody within the property.
Earlier than he performed Joseph in “Wuthering Heights,” Ewan Mitchell’s breakout function was enjoying Osferth, the bastard son of the king of Wessex within the medieval historic drama “The Final Kingdom.” After that, Mitchell had a supporting function in Claire Denis’ “Excessive Life” starring Robert Pattinson. He additionally performed embittered working-class Oxford scholar Michael Gavey in Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn” — his first collaboration with the director.
Mitchell returns within the upcoming third season of “Home of the Dragon. After that, he is scheduled to star within the remake of the 1967 Takashi Nomura movie, “A Colt Is My Passport” by “The Raid” director Gareth Evans.
“Wuthering Heights” is in theaters now.
