Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi showcase their scorching chemistry on The Graham Norton Show after followers accused the pair of ‘copying Sydney Sweeney with flirty PR stunts’

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi have done little to dampen fans’ claims about their sizzling chemistry, with the pair set to appear on The Graham Norton Show this week.

New snaps from the episode, which airs on Friday, show the duo’s flirty exchanges as they promote their roles in the racy romance Wuthering Heights.

Margot, 35, and Jacob, 28, star as the iconic literary lovers Catherine and Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel.

The duo will join fellow guests Amanda Seyfried, Johannes Radebe and Jacob Alon on Graham’s famous sofa.

Once again channelling her Georgian-inspired looks for the film’s promotional tour, Margot was dressed in a grey corseted dress for filming.

The film is set for release on February 13, and is already tipped to be a huge hit this Valentine’s Day. 

Ahead of its release, Margot and Jacob have been showing off their sizzling chemistry in a string of red carpet appearances. 

In fact, it has led to some complaints from fans that the duo have taken inspiration from Sydney Sweeney‘s ‘PR playbook,’ after she put on a similarly cosy display with co-star Glen Powell in 2023 to promote their film Anyone But You.

Jacob himself recently raised eyebrows during a press interview when he declared the pair had a ‘mutual obsession’ while filming.

Speaking to Fandango, with Margot sitting nearby, he said he made sure he was never more than 10 metres away from the Barbie actress on set.

‘If you have the opportunity to share a film set with Margot Robbie, you’re going to make sure you’re within five to ten metres at all times,’ he said.

‘Watching how she drinks tea, how she eats her food. When is it going to slip? And it never comes undone.’

The mutual ‘obsession’ helped with getting into character, as Jacob added: ‘There’d be a moment where we’d be running hand-in-hand through the moors, maybe not even in the scene, just setting it up, where I’d look across at her and she’d be looking at me and you really realized you are looking at Catherine and she was looking at Heathcliffe’

‘And in that moment, we really were a part of their love, for real.”

Meanwhile Margot claimed that she became ‘co-dependent’ on Jacob.

She said: ‘I’m so codependent with people I work with and I love everyone so much and I’m always that person who’s so devastated when a job’s over and I never want it to end. I think I developed that quite quickly with Jacob too.’

Margot went on to add that she became so accustomed to the Saltburn star’s presence that when he wasn’t around, she felt ‘really unnerved and unmoored’, adding: ‘I felt quite lost, like a kid without their blanket or something.’

The Barbie star also revealed the touching gesture Jacob made when they filmed over Valentine’s Day last year.

She recalled: ‘We were shooting on Valentine’s Day. You made my day and, as Heathcliff, filled my room with roses.

‘I remember thinking on Valentine’s Day, oh he’s probably a very good boyfriend, ’cause there’s a lot of thoughtfulness in this. You did a lot of very thoughtful things.’

On Wednesday, it was revealed Margot and Jacob had matching signet rings made to commemorate their time together.

Each of the beautiful rings features an image of two skeletons embracing, and the words ‘Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.’

Several commenters have accused the pair of copying the now-infamous press tour playbook used by Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell during the promotion of Anyone But You. 

‘They are going way too hard with this film promotion. This is exactly like Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell. It’s all marketing,’ one said.

‘Overdoing it to sell their chemistry,’ a third agreed.

‘This shouldn’t be necessary if the film is actually good.’

Others questioned the optics altogether, with one bluntly writing: ‘Super creepy to say when you’re married.’

Robbie recently claimed to relish the movie’s emotional ‘swings’ and said her character cries almost relentlessly in every scene she’s in. 

Asked if she prepares differently for romantic scenes, she told PEOPLE: ‘No different to all the other scenes that we do. The movie kind of demands a lot of all of us.

‘My character essentially cries in every single scene, but no, it was a joy. I loved playing a character who kind of swings from one wild emotion to the other in an instant.’

The new movie is written and directed by Emerald Fennell, and the 40-year-old filmmaker stressed that ‘safety and trust and love’ were uppermost in her mind when she helmed the sex scenes.

Fennell – who directed Elordi in Saltburn – added: ‘It’s always just about making sure everyone feels super comfortable and we all are, really. We trust each other and so we try to kind of make it funny and laugh everything off.

‘But love scenes are just the same as any other scene, really. And so we just approach it from an emotional point of view.’ 

While the film doesn’t open until February 13, pre-sales are already strong, hinting at a $30M-$35M domestic opening weekend.

This would make Wuthering Heights the biggest box office opener of Jacob’s career, and Margot’s first hit since 2023’s Barbie.