Sorry, Rachel! No robots in this one, either.

Jennifer Aniston shouts out Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Wuthering Heights-themed Friends throwback

Sorry, Rachel! No robots in this one, either.

By Emlyn Travis

Emlyn Travis is a news writer at **. She has been working at EW since 2022. Her work has previously appeared on MTV News, Teen Vogue, and *NME*.

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Jennifer Aniston at the 2025 ELLE Women in Hollywood Celebration held at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills on Nov. 17, 2025; Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie attend the UK Premiere of 'Wuthering Heights' at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on Feb. 5, 2026 in London, England. Credit:

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Jennifer Aniston is wading into the wild and windy moors of *Wuthering Heights* with a little help from Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. **

The *Friends* actress recently posted a throwback clip from the beloved ‘90s sitcom on Instagram that featured her character Rachel and Lisa Kudrow’s Phoebe studying Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel as part of a literature class. **

The season 5 snippet shows Green arriving to the class late without having actually read the book, which leads her to ask Phoebe to fill her in on its complicated plot.

Robbie and Elordi in 'Wuthering Heights'.

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“You said you read it in high school,” Phoebe remarks, to which Rachel replies, “Yeah, but then I remembered I started it and then there was the pep rally and I was, I was on top of the pyramid.” **

Phoebe, in turn, begins relaying the story to her. "It's this tragic love story between Cathy and Heathcliff, and it takes place on these really creepy moors in England, which I think represent the wildness of Heathcliff's character,” she says. “I totally get symbolism!”

Jennifer Aniston at the red carpet for the Variety x Apple TV "The Morning Show" Finale and Reception at Linwood Dunn Theater on Nov. 19, 2025 in Los Angeles, Calif.

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And now, following the release of Emerald Fennell’s newest film adaptation of the gothic classic starring Robbie and Elordi, Aniston joked that she doesn’t have to pick up the book, either. **

“Thanks to Margot and Jacob, no reading required,” she captioned her post.**

Robbie and Elordi star as Cathy and Heathcliff in the film, which chronicles the dramatic, obsessive, and toxic relationship between the pair of pseudo-siblings.

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Speaking with **, Robbie revealed that she fell in love with the world of *Wuthering Heights *after reading Fennell’s script. **

"My first foray into the world of Cathy and Heathcliff was in her script, and then I went and read the book — and I've read it a few times now and adore it — and it's just so incredible," Robbie said. "But I connected with their relationship quite quickly, even though it did take me a little bit to find the character."

Elordi added that he felt he truly connected with Heathcliff the moment they began filming in the Yorkshire moors. (The ones Phoebe mentioned!) **

"When we got out of the studio and into the moors, there's a magic up there that Brontë captured in her book, and it did feel like we all breathed that air in and became the character in a way," he explained. "Including the crew...It was those moments that felt like connecting to the script."

Still, Aniston may not want to skip Brontë's book if she wants to have the complete *Wuthering Heights *experience. Fennell's film chronicles only the first half of the novel, with several characters omitted and plot points changed along the way.

Fennell told EW that it became clear to her early in the filmmaking process that she “wanted to make something that was my response and interpretation to that book and to the feeling” of *Wuthering Heights *rather than a direct retelling.

"It was funny, you know, I think the things that I remembered were both real and not real," she said of the book. "So there was a certain amount of wish fulfillment in there, and there were whole characters that I'd sort of forgotten or consolidated."

That being said, she'd love the chance to adapt both sections of the novel into a television series. "I think, really, I would do a mini series and encompass the whole thing over 10 hours, and it would be beautiful," she said. "But if you're making a movie, and you've got to be fairly tight, you've got to make those kinds of hard decisions."**

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