A new marketing push around Wuthering Heights has drawn attention to one of the film’s most provocative design choices: a “skin room” built for Margot Robbie’s Catherine Earnshaw, where the bedroom walls and floor replicate her complexion down to veins, moles and stray hairs.
The idea came from production designer Suzie Davies, who described reading the script and realizing the movie demanded sets that felt heightened and slightly unreal, built on a soundstage in the tradition of classic studio epics. For Cathy’s bedroom at Thrushcross Grange, Davies said the team took photocopies of Robbie’s arm, printed them onto stretchy fabric, padded the surface, then laid latex on top to create a fleshlike finish. The same sequence of rooms includes other deliberately unsettling details, from hair-trimmed drapes to décor that suggests the house itself sweats.
The “skin room” has now moved beyond the screen. Airbnb, partnering with Warner Bros. Pictures, announced a limited overnight stay in Yorkshire that recreates Cathy’s bedroom for selected guests. The experience is free, opens for booking requests on Feb. 20, and runs across late February into early March, according to the company’s details. A Warner Bros. marketing executive, Dana Nussbaum, said the promotion aims to let “true romantics” step inside the world imagined for the film through the Airbnb collaboration.
The tie-in has sparked split reactions online and in lifestyle coverage: supporters call it a rare piece of tactile world-building that matches director Emerald Fennell’s taste for heightened, psychologically charged spaces, while skeptics frame it as an attention-grabbing stunt that risks reducing a classic by Wuthering Heights author Emily Brontë to a single grotesque talking point.
