India, Dec. 7 -- Margot Robbie has defended director Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, which has been facing criticism for casting and alterations. Robbie, who plays Catherine Earnshaw opposite Jacob Elordi's Heathcliff, hailed Fennell's work as "this generation's Titanic", in an interview with Vogue magazine.

Emily Bronte had described Heathcliff as a "dark-skinned" man in her 19th-century gothic novel. Several Bronte readers, therefore, slammed the movie's casting director, Kharmel Cochrane, after she cast Australian actor Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff for Fennell's adaptation.

Margot Robbie, who claimed to understand the readers' sentiments, urged them to have faith in Cochrane and Fennell's decision. "I ...