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Ed Westwick plays Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Gossip Girl bad boy Ed Westwick, aka Chuck Bass, has been cast as the dark hero Heathcliff in the film adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
British actress Gemma Arterton has been cast as Cathy, after favourite Natalie Portman dropped the project. Peter Webber is set to direct.
I'm a little surprised nobody suggested Westwick for Heathcliff — though at the time, most of the choices were skewing older. But some of the descriptions you offered — intense, "dirty-yet-sexy," emotionally strong — do seem like they could apply to the man behind Chuck Bass. Meanwhile, Arterton is a rising star in the UK who's played the title role in Tess of the D'Urbervilles and was Strawberry Fields in Quantum of Solace.
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at 15:36 on May 25th, 2009
I am very glad he got it, He is one of my favorite actors.
He's going to play the darkness of heathcliff very well.