3 February 2026<\/time>\n <\/p>\nEmerald Fennell believes she would’ve gone “off the rails” as a teenager if she hadn’t attended boarding school.<\/p>\n
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Emerald Fennell believes she would’ve gone ‘off the rails’ as a teenager if she hadn’t attended boarding school<\/p>\n
\nThe Wuthering Heights director has recalled going to boarding school aged 13, during which time she was an insomniac, and while she looks back now and thinks it was a “very good idea” for her to leave London and live at school at that time, it could be a “lonely” experience. <\/p>\n
\nSpeaking on Ruthie\u2019s Table 4 podcast, she said: “I went to boarding school at 13. <\/p>\n
\n“It actually was, I think, probably a very good idea. <\/p>\n
\n“I think I would have gone quite quickly off the rails in London. Even I knew that even as a child. <\/p>\n
\n“So, even though I was homesick and I did love my family, and as an insomniac at boarding school it’s quite lonely being in a room full of people awake when everyone’s asleep, I think it was probably a more wholesome scenario than if I’d stayed in London.”<\/p>\n
\nWhile the Saltburn director struggled to sleep at boarding school, she thought the food was “fine” and particularly enjoyed chowing down on toast and chips. <\/p>\n
\nAsked what the food was like, she said: “It was a lot of toast, and I love toast.<\/p>\n
\n“I’d been brought up on the ready meal, so I was just like delighted if there were chips for every meal.<\/p>\n
\n“I mostly grew up on carbohydrates, which was absolutely fine by me. <\/p>\n
\n“It was only when I hit 18 and realised you actually can’t eat 5,000 calories worth of carbs every day, I was like, ‘No, this diet isn’t sustainable.’ “<\/p>\n
\nDespite trying to refrain from eating too many carbs, Emerald loves to eat toasted cheese sandwiches nowadays, and she is “obsessed with foods”. <\/p>\n
\nQuizzed on whether there is a food scene in her forthcoming film Wuthering Heights – which she directs and wrote the screenplay for – she added: “Oh yes. There are so many food scenes. I’m obsessed with foods.<\/p>\n
\n“There are eggs in this new film. There are eggs. There’s jelly.”<\/p>\n
\nRuthie\u2019s Table 4 can be listened to via all major podcast platforms.<\/p>\n
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