FILM-MAKERS are appealing for unknown actors in the region to star in the latest big-screen film to shoot in Yorkshire.

A new adaptation of Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel Wuthering Heights is set to film on location in Yorkshire at the end of May, directed by Oscar and BAFTA-winning director Andrea Arnold.

Skins star Kaya Scodelario will play Catherine Earnshaw, but the role of Heathcliff had yet to be filled.

Now an open casting call has been issued by investors Screen Yorkshire looking for Heathcliffe and younger versions of both central characters.

A spokesman for the film- makers said the Heathcliff they are looking for is, “Male, working class, brooding, 16-21 years old.” Actors auditioning for the role of young Heathcliff must fit the same description, but be aged between 10 and 14.

The young Catherine is described as “10 to 13 years old (strictly no older than 13), pale-skinned, dark-haired, feisty”.

Actors auditioning for the roles do not need any acting experience, but will ideally have a Yorkshire accent and must be available for eight weeks from the end of May.

Auditions take place at Jurys Inn Hotel in Leeds today, at 2pm, and tomorrow, at 9am.

For more details, email Rob Earnshaw at rob@thecastingwebsite.com or phone 01952 458450.