Margot Robbie was living, breathing and dancing Wuthering Heights while working on Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation of the classic Emily Brontë novel, with the actress at one point recreating Kate Bush‘s iconic “Wuthering Heights” dance on set.
On Monday (Feb. 16), dialect coach William Conacher shared a video on Instagram from his time working on set with Robbie, Jacob Elordi and the rest of the cast of the period film. In the clip, the Barbie star — wearing her character Cathy’s corset and billowing skirt — does her own interpretation of Bush’s eccentric arm waves and leg kicks in the music video for her gothic debut single.
“Cathy may not have a great time in the movie but we had a lovely time making it,” Conacher wrote in the caption. “Here is the joyous Margot on our last day of shooting.”
Bush dropped “Wuthering Heights” — on which she sings from the perspective of Cathy — in 1978, with the track serving as the lead single from her debut album, The Kick Inside. It spent four weeks at No. 1 on the U.K.’s Official Singles Chart.
Though the track was clearly a meaningful part of filming, the Wuthering Heights movie’s official music was provided by Charli xcx, who dropped a companion album of the same name on Feb. 13 for the film. That same day, Fennell’s take on the novel premiered in theaters.
Bush last dropped music in 2011, with album 50 Words for Snow arriving that year. She has since said that she’s “keen” on starting a new LP, telling BBC Radio 4 in 2024, “I’ve got lots of ideas, and I’m really looking forward to getting back into that creative space — it’s been a long time.”
The musician has, however, continued enjoying the renaissance of her 1985 single “Running Up That Hill” since it was featured on Stranger Things in 2022. That year, it re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 and reached a new peak of No. 3 on the chart, and after the premiere of the Netflix show’s fifth season in 2025, the track returned to No. 1 of the Top TV Songs chart.
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