Why Joseph From Wuthering Heights Looks So Familiar – SlashFilm

Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” is a polarizing movie, with /Movie’s personal evaluate warning that followers of Emily Brontë’s authentic novel might want to “throw out the e-book totally with a view to benefit from the film.” Nonetheless, there isn’t any denying that Fennell delivered the primary huge film of 2026. It is a film with attractive manufacturing design, lavish units with some attention-grabbing decor selections straight out of a Tim Burton film (the fireside made out of arms, anybody?), and an ideal solid.

Certainly, “Wuthering Heights” is filled with recognized faces. Positive, Margot Robbie as Cathy Earnshaw and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff are prominently featured on the poster and promotional materials, however there’s extra — from Hong Chau as Nelly to Shazad Latif as Edgar. Eagle-eyed viewers could have acknowledged “Adolescence” star Owen Cooper as younger Heathcliff. These with even higher eyes, nevertheless, could have seen Ewan Mitchell as Joseph, and acknowledged him from a success HBO present.

Within the movie, Joseph is a servant at Wuthering Heights who’s working there from earlier than Heathcliff is delivered to the property till lengthy after Cathy’s father passes away. His most important position in Fennell’s reimagining of the movie is to reveal Cathy to BDSM for the primary time when she sees Joseph and one other servant, Zillah (Amy Morgan), having a steamy scorching session in a barn late at night time.

Almost certainly, nevertheless, Ewan Mitchell appears acquainted as a result of he performs everybody’s favourite silvery-blond-haired psychopath, Aemond Targaryen in “Home of the Dragon.” 

In “Home of the Dragon,” Ewan Mitchell performs Aemond as basically an anime character. In spite of everything, the trope of the scarred, white-haired character who’s each a sadist and a badass is effectively documented — from Griffith in “Berserk” to Vicious in “Cowboy Bebop.” Aemond is sort of a caricature: a mustache-twirling villain who appears incapable of pretending he’s something however sadism incarnate. He is solely actually been part of the present for a couple of season and a half, after the massive time-skip late in season 1, however Mitchell immediately grew to become probably the most memorable elements of “Home of the Dragon.”

It helps that Mitchell has a naturally sinister look in his eyes. Even in “Wuthering Heights,” the place he performs a non-threatening man who merely does his job, is head over heels in love, and appears genuinely comfortable to see Cathy and Heathcliff, you’ll be able to’t shake the sensation that he is one unhealthy day away from murdering everybody within the property.

Earlier than he performed Joseph in “Wuthering Heights,” Ewan Mitchell’s breakout position was taking part in Osferth, the bastard son of the king of Wessex within the medieval historic drama “The Final Kingdom.” After that, Mitchell had a supporting position in Claire Denis’ “Excessive Life” starring Robert Pattinson. He additionally performed embittered working-class Oxford pupil Michael Gavey in Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn” — his first collaboration with the director.

Mitchell returns within the upcoming third season of “Home of the Dragon. After that, he is scheduled to star within the remake of the 1967 Takashi Nomura movie, “A Colt Is My Passport” by “The Raid” director Gareth Evans.

“Wuthering Heights” is in theaters now.