Catherine and Heathcliff. These are surely roles that every attractive British actor should aspire to. Why mope between auditions for years if you don’t think it could be your windswept hair decorating bus posters one day?

So the British director Emerald Fennell’s casting of two Australians – Jacob Elordiand Margot Robbie – to play these parts in ‘Wuthering Heights’ feels unfair. But her decision is canny. Elordi and Robbie are both gorgeous, of course, but they also come bearing a new type of cultural clout. Their perfect hair and facial symmetry are nothing compared with the quirkiness of their being Australian, the aesthetic that’s seducing young Brits most of all.

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The first clue was about five years ago, when many British men started looking ridiculous. They still do. You can see them in London and our university towns. They grow outrageous mullets, with the sides shaved off. They grow attention-seeking moustaches. They wear caps inside. They wear vests, denim shorts (or ‘jorts’), Birken-stocks and lots of rings. Perhaps the most ludicrous aspect is the return of ‘speed dealer sunnies’: frameless........

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