The internet’s most outspoken auteur, Paul Schrader, has weighed in on Jacob Elordi’s “Wuthering Heights” casting.

While the announcement of Elordi as literary brooding bad boy Heathcliff was met with initial backlash, Schrader is assuring audiences that Elordi is more than ready to take on the iconic character. Schrader cast Elordi in his feature “Oh, Canada” prior to Elordi’s later breakout turns in “Priscilla” and “Saltburn”; Elordi is reuniting with his “Saltburn” writer/director Emerald Fennell for the “Wuthering Heights” adaptation. The film co-stars Margot Robbie, who produced Fennell’s prior two features through her LuckyChap banner.

Schrader told i-d that if Elordi can pull off playing Heathcliff, then the actor can “do it all.”

“Doing this [‘Oh, Canada’] was a good move for him,” Schrader said, “but now he’s got one big test left as a movie star, and that’s Heathcliff. If he can...