A child-abuse lawsuit over a nude scene filed by actors who played star-crossed lovers in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 “Romeo and Juliet” will be thrown out, a California judge said Thursday, May 25. | AFP
Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey attend the 50th Anniversary World Premiere Restoration of ‘The Producers’ presented at the Opening Night Gala of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival at the TCL Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California, on April 26, 2018. A child-abuse lawsuit over a nude scene filed by Whiting and Hussey, who played star-crossed lovers in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 “Romeo and Juliet,” will be thrown out, a California judge said Thursday, May 25.
But a judge Thursday granted Paramount’s motion to throw out the suit, rejecting the actors’ argument that the scene amounted to “child pornography” and noting that the award-winning film was covered under freedom of speech protections.
Variety reported that during a 2018 interview with Hussey, she defended the nude scene, which she insisted Zeffirelli had done tastefully.But the suit filed last December said Zeffirelli—who died in 2019—cajoled the teenage pair into performing the scene, telling them without it “the picture would fail.”
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