'Romeo & Juliet' stars sue over 1968 film's teen nude scene

[ificandream]

By Andrew Dalton/Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The two stars of 1968′s “Romeo and Juliet” sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million on Tuesday over a nude scene in the film shot when they were teens.

Olivia Hussey, then 15 and now 71, and Leonard Whiting, then 16 now 72, filed the suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleging sexual abuse, sexual harassment and fraud.

Director Franco Zeffirelli, who died in 2019, initially told the two that they would wear flesh-colored undergarments in the bedroom scene that comes late in the movie and was shot on the final days of filming, the suit alleges.

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Yet they were filmed in the nude without their knowledge, in violation of California and federal laws against indecency and the exploitation of children, the suit says.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-movies-franco-zeffirelli-lawsuits-legal-proceedings-f62cad4b78eec5d0486eef8a20ce35d5

[claudette]

1. How could they be

“Filmed in the nude WITHOUT THEIR KNOWLEDGE”??

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. Oh, please (nt)

[ificandream]

3. Another link.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/romeo-and-juliet-actors-lawsuit-child-abuse-underage-nudity-1234655524/

(Better written than the AP version, IMO.)

[heckles65]

4. I can't imagine this will go well for them

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At best this sounds like some revisionist mindset some old people go through. Sort of like 60 year olds speaking against an abortion they once had, or made a girlfriend go through;

but put them back in their younger bodies, they'd do the same thing.

And the public won't be happy about having a beloved classic spoiled.

[msongs]

5. robert ebert reviews romeo and juliet (and nude scene) - he liked it just fine lol

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/romeo-and-juliet-1968