Emerald Fennell’s film adaption of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights was met with immediate online criticism after the trailer release in September. Fennell’s choice to cast Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff — a character who Brontë repeatedly describes as dark skinned — brushes past the inherent racial identity attached to this character. Her casting inadvertently speaks to a larger issue of how media tends to take a colorblind approach regarding issues about race.