This Valentine’s Day 2026, British Vogue [IG] wastes not one word in their January 2026 cover story with Hollywood mega-star Margot Robbie about her February drop ‘erotic retelling’ of ‘Wuthering Heights’.

Provocateur Emerald Fennell is the writer, director, and producer of the adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic novel. Reading the lead-in to the Robbie interview with Radhika Seth, the teaser sounds tempting in the way that speaking to Nicole Kidman about her role in the film ‘Baby Girl’ challenges our own comfortable parameters of ‘acceptable liberal behavior’ for Kidman.

Robbie is a producer on ‘Wuthering Heights’, as she was on Fennell’s last two films. Jacob Elordi plays Heathcliff, one of the most compelling antiheroes in Gothic literature. Laurence Olivier to Richard Burton and Ralph Fiennes to Tom Hardy — these men have all played the role of this landmark character.

British Vogue speaks to us: “The question will be answered: how far will the new mother and A-lister go in the name of art?” In the case of Kidman, she pushed the envelope beyond what her ex-husband Keith Urban could and would allow himself to watch or endorse. Kidman’s role definitely pushed the envelope in the realm of sexual provocation.

This interview is about Margot Robbie, not Nicole Kidman, but I can’t help drawing a comparison, reading the words. The Chanel ambassador Robbie Chanel on the cover, with a wide range of luxury fashion styled by Robbie Spencer: Alaïa, Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood, Bottega Veneta, Chanel, Dilaria Findikoglu, Dries van Noten, Maison Margiela, McQueen, Mugler, Ralph Lauren, Schiaparelli, Simone Rocha, Vaquera and more.

Mikael Jansson [IG] is the photographer for ‘In The Heights’. / Hair by Bryce Scarlett; makeup by Pati Dubroff

Everything is so dramatic today with Jonathan Anderson and filmmaker Adam Curtis asking us “Do You Dare Enter the House of Dior?”

Today, Vogue asks how far will Robbie go in the name of art? After Kidman, it could be dicey but the topic doesn’t come up in the interview. So much for a setup.

As for Chanel v Dior, clients will weigh in soon enough with their credit cards.

Kidman and Robbie, however, are traveling in the real world of human self-knowledge and understanding — in this case, two strong female egos who experience life in nuanced layers. The plot twists like a snake where success and surrender, familiarity and fear, self-love and nurturing and demands of dominance engage in a seductive dance demands of female capitulation, with assurances of ultimate fulfillment.

Robbie comments on people’s expectations about the film.

“Everyone’s expecting this to be very, very raunchy. I think people will be surprised. Not to say there aren’t sexual elements and that it’s not provocative – it definitely is provocative – but it’s more romantic than provocative. This is a big epic romance. It’s just been so long since we’ve had one – maybe The Notebook, also The English Patient. You have to go back decades. It’s that feeling when your chest swells or it’s like someone’s punched you in the guts and the air leaves your body. That’s a signature of Emerald’s. Whether it’s titillating or repulsion, her superpower is eliciting a physical response.”

Robbie’s production company, LuckyChap was co-founded in 2014 with Tom Ackerley, Josey McNamara, and Sophia Kerr. Robbie, famously, does not discuss her marriage to Ackerley or their son. They were London housemates before getting together and founding LuckyChap.

“I was the ultimate single gal,” Robbie told American Vogue in 2016.