Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, protagonists of the 1968 version of “Romeo and Juliet” directed by Franco Zeffirelli, filed a lawsuit against Paramount Studios for sexual exploitation and distribution of images of naked adolescents, as a result of the scenes they had to film for that production when they were 15 and 16 years old respectively. The lawsuit, based in Santa Monica, argues that the director, who died in 2019, had previously assured them that there would be no nudity in a bedroom scene, but that once on the film set he convinced them to remove their clothes. “Zeffirelli had told the protagonists that they would wear a flesh-colored mesh, but then he changed his plans and to convince them he showed them where he would place the cameras and promised not to film their private parts,” according to what Tony Marinozzi, representative, told Hollywood media. from Hussey and Whiting. However, in the final scene you can see the buttocks of the actor who played Romeo and the breasts of young Juliet.
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