Chuck and Blair on Gossip Girl

Chuck Bass aka Brit actor Ed Westwick has been cast as one of the great romantic heroes of all time: Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. The Bronte novel was famously turned into a movie by none other than sir Laurence Olivier way back in 1939.Olivier won an Oscar for his part, I´m not sure Ed will as well.

I think it´s a great bit of casting. In a way, Chuck is a bit of a Heathcliff in Gossip Girl, because he´s a loveable bad guy. Heathcliff is, according to Bronte specialist Andrew McCarthy, “a man prone to domestic violence, kidnapping, possible murder and digging up his dead lover. He is moody and unkind to animals.”

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I´ve never seen Chuck kick a puppy or torture a kitten, but apart from the unkind to animals bit, I think that´s Chuck to a T!

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