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'Margot Robbie ate my giant strawberries on Wuthering Heights'

Henry Godfrey-EvansEssex
News imageGetty Images Margot Robbie has her blonde hair swept back with two curly tendrils at the front. She has dangly earrings and a gold choker-style thick necklaceGetty Images

A food artist said it was "really exciting" to see Margot Robbie holding her giant chocolate strawberries on the set of Wuthering Heights.

The reinvention of Emily Brontë's novel has been described as 'sexy, dramatic and swoonily romantic' by BBC Culture, and food artist, Sarah Hardy, 55, who worked on the film, said her brief was for everything to feel "a bit surreal".

The "horror chocolatier" from Sible Hedingham, Essex, said director Emerald Fennell was left disappointed with a strawberry order for the movie and sought her help at the last minute.

Hardy recalled: "They got in touch with me as a bit of an emergency job. 'Can you make us some six-inch-tall strawberries, now?' - That was the request, and they had to be biteable."

News imageWarner Bros. Pictures Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi standing intimately close, they're both in medieval clothing and the weather is dark and gloomyWarner Bros. Pictures
Jacob Elordi (pictured) also starred in Netflix's Frankenstein, which featured Sarah Hardy's chocolate beetles

She explained: "Margot Robbie has to be seen chomping into it, so I had to go away and come up with a recipe that would hold its shape and not flop...but I'm afraid it doesn't taste that great. I didn't get to say this to Margot Robbie herself, but I am sorry. It's just sugar."

'The secret is the sesame seeds'

News imageSupplied black-gloved hand holding a giant fake strawberry, which was red at the bottom and yellow at the top, with green leaves sprouting from the head,Supplied
The fruit was bigger than the artist's hands

Ms Hardy is no stranger to big Hollywood clients, having also been commissioned to make chocolate beetles for Netflix's Frankenstein adaptation in 2025.

She told Sonia Watson on BBC Essex that it took her all weekend to make twenty strawberries.

"The real tricky bit was getting the skin because a strawberry skin has dips and pips all over it," she said.

"So in the end, I had to... I found that sesame seeds work, and if you put them individually into the skin, one by one, you can make it look like a strawberry.

"I know how long it took because we watched three series of Stranger Things whilst we were making them. That's how long it took. A lot of hours."

News imageHenry Godfrey-Evans/BBC A woman holding what looks like - but definitely is not - a skull, in the background is a cabinet of beetles, shells and a brainHenry Godfrey-Evans/BBC
Sarah Hardy has dubbed herself a "horror chocolatier"

She was completely put off from eating strawberries after the job, but added: "I love seeing them used and smashed and eaten, and I don't quite know what it is about that that I enjoy so much."

She said it was exciting to see Robbie holding it in promotional material for the film, and will be watching it on its Friday, 13 February release date.

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