'Sex scenes are uncomfortable for everyone': Wuthering Heights star Alison Oliver poses in a stunning shoot for ELLE as she gives her take on intimacy coordinators

Wuthering Heights star Alison Oliver has revealed she finds sex scenes 'uncomfortable' as she posed for a stunning shoot with ELLE UK.

The actress, 28, is set to play Isabella Linton in Emerald Fennell's racy adaptation of the famous novel, and during an interview with the publication, she shared that she 'couldn't imagine' filming sex scenes with an intimacy coordinator.

She said: 'I couldn't imagine not having them; sex scenes are uncomfortable for everyone. They take the discomfort out by making it professional.'

Following Emerald's last sizzling film Saltburn, fans of the writer and director are awaiting a steamy take on Wuthering Heights, with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi leading the cast as star-crossed lovers Catherine and Heathcliff in the movie.

Alison shared insight into her role as Isabella Linton in the film, adding: 'She's a very repressed character who is desperate for love. 

'Emerald's interpretation of Isabella's story is the reverse of Cathy's; there's an uncorseting of her. Like she becomes undone. There's something so powerful about being underestimated.'

Alison added that she learned she'd got the role after Emerald sent her a text message, after she previously worked with The Crown star on Saltburn.

'She said, if you want Isabella, she's yours,' the star revealed.

In the wake of speculation that this version of Wuthering Heights will be racier than others, Alison said it will reflect Emerald's experience of reading the gothic book.

She revealed: 'It's how Emerald [Fennell] experienced the book when she read it as a teenager. So it's not what's on the page, and I don't think that's what it's trying to be.

'You'll never be bored by an Emerald Fennell film. I think it will make noise, but you never know how things are going to be taken. I've learned that it's not really my business to worry about that.' 

Alison, who has nearly 100,000 followers on Instagram, admitted she 'often doesn't know' why she still uses the platform.

She added: 'I often don't know why I have it because my job is to make others believe I'm someone else.'

'It's also been a helpful way for me to educate myself on what's happening in the world, especially with the ongoing horrors in Gaza, and how I can help.'

Emerald Fennell herself previously said adapting Wuthering Heights was an impossible task as she explained why she changed the title of her movie.

The upcoming adaptation of Emily Brontë's classic novel starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi is named "Wuthering Heights", with the quotation marks.

Now Emerald has admitted why she chose to include the quotation marks in the title.

She said you simply can't adapt a book as 'dense, complicated and difficult' as Wuthering Heights, so you create a version of it rather than a replica.

Emerald said she consulted the Brontë Parsonage Museum and others who love the book as much as she does before deciding on the title, adding: 'It is Wuthering Heights and it isn't.'

Speaking to Fandango on Wednesday, Emerald said: 'I think it's a lot of things but I think primarily it's because the book means so much to me and it means so so much to so many people, and I've been doing a lot of talking to the Brontë Parsonage Museum and to other people who love this book too because it means a lot to me.

'It's every important that everyone who loves it as much as I do feels almost a part of it, I guess.'

She continued: 'But the thing for me is you can't adapt a book as dense and complicated and difficult as this book. I can't say I'm making Wuthering Heights. It's not possible.

'What I can say is I'm making a version of it. There's a version I remembered reading, which isn't quite real. And there's a version that I wanted to stuff to happen that never happened.

'And so it is Wuthering Heights and it isn't. But really I'd say any adaptation of a novel, and especially a novel like this, should have, you know, quotation marks around it.'

Read the full interview at ELLE.com