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Director Nicholas Stoller, whom she now works with on “Platonic,” changed her life, casting her as a cheeky pop star in “Get Him to the Greek.”

He said he checked neighbouring Bogo town and saw solar lamps casting a dim glow over streets strewn with boulders.

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Her father, the late actor Henry Fonda, witnessed the lynching of a Black man during the 1919 Omaha race riots when he was 14, casting him into becoming a lifelong liberal.

People will be very surprised by the casting — especially of Barbara Havers — but I think both of the actors will grow on the viewer.

The choice of casting raised eyebrows because Robbie, at 35, is older than Catherine Earnshaw, who is a teenager in the book; while Heathcliff is described by Brontë as being "dark-skinned".

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