{"id":44680,"date":"2023-01-05T03:21:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T03:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/romeo-juliet-stars-sue-over-infamous-underage-nude-scene\/"},"modified":"2023-01-05T03:21:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T03:21:09","slug":"romeo-juliet-stars-sue-over-infamous-underage-nude-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/05\/romeo-juliet-stars-sue-over-infamous-underage-nude-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo &#038; Juliet Stars SUE Over Infamous Underage Nude Scene!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><strong>[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A pair totally different generations grew up figuring out about this controversy!<\/p>\n<p>Before\u00a0<strong>Leonardo DiCaprio<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Claire Danes<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>The Cardigans<\/strong>, the <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>\u00a0each eighth grade literature class needed to watch was the 1968 model directed by <strong>Franco Zeffirelli<\/strong>. It was an enormous hit that was nominated for 4 <strong>Oscars<\/strong>, and for years it was thought of <em>the<\/em> movie model of the Shakespeare traditional. It helped that for extra verisimilitude, the Italian filmmaker solid precise teenagers to play the titular star-crossed lovers as a substitute of seasoned adults as one would typically see on stage. It makes the play make much more sense with that context. This would all be fantastic have been it not for <em>that one scene<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ECFftsOyzd0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ROMEO AND JULIET | &quot;Balcony&quot; Clip | Paramount Movies\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ECFftsOyzd0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>As these of you who lived by means of their instructor desperately attempting to fast-forward the traditional VHS tape know, after Romeo and Juliet consummate their marriage, they&#8217;re proven in mattress the subsequent morning \u2014 nude! And you see for only a second Romeo\u2019s butt and Juliet\u2019s breasts. There\u2019s only a little bit of nudity, however contemplating <strong>Leonard Whiting<\/strong> was 16 years outdated on the time and <strong>Olivia Hussey<\/strong> was solely 15, it\u2019s fairly sketchy \u2014 even for the \u201960s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/kourtney-kardashian-travis-barker-romeo-and-juliet-bach-party-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Photos: Kourtney Kardashian &amp; Travis Barker Had A \u2018Romeo &amp; Juliet\u2019 Bach Party!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seems the actors are nonetheless fairly upset about all of it these years later! In truth, they are saying it was extra than simply filming them nude \u2014 they have been tricked! Per a shock report in <em>Variety<\/em> on Wednesday, Whiting and Hussey, who&#8217;re each of their 70s now, filed a lawsuit late final week towards <strong>Paramount<\/strong> for sexual exploitation and distributing nude pictures of adolescent youngsters. Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>They declare Zeffirelli (who died in 2019) first informed them they might be sporting flesh-colored underwear to guard their modesty. Then because the scene approached, he begged them to go nude \u201cor the Picture would fail.\u201d However, they declare, he assured them with the angles of the digital camera that their non-public bits wouldn&#8217;t be seen. Unfortunately for academics all through the nation, that wasn\u2019t true. As the pair\u2019s enterprise supervisor\u00a0<strong>Tony Marinozzi<\/strong> put it:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat they were told and what went on were two different things. They trusted Franco. At 16, as actors, they took his lead that he would not violate that trust they had. Franco was their friend, and frankly, at 16, what do they do? There are no options. There was no #MeToo.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They complain within the swimsuit how they suffered <em>psychological anguish and emotional misery<\/em> within the 55 years for the reason that movie embarrassed and betrayed them. They additionally argue they misplaced out on job alternatives as a result of nudity. Attorney\u00a0<strong>Solomon Gresen<\/strong> defined:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNude images of minors are unlawful and shouldn\u2019t be exhibited. These were very young naive children in the \u201960s who had no understanding of what was about to hit them. All of a sudden they were famous at a level they never expected, and in addition they were violated in a way they didn\u2019t know how to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In recompense, they&#8217;re demanding from Paramount a quantity \u201cbelieved to be in excess of $500 million.\u201d A HALF BILLION?! Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Innerestingly, a pair years in the past Hussey appeared to have a distinct view of the scene. She defended it in an interview with <em>Variety<\/em> in 2018, saying that whereas \u201cnobody my age had done that before,\u201d it was shot tastefully and \u201cit was needed for the film,\u201d explaining:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t that big of a deal. And Leonard wasn\u2019t shy at all! In the middle of shooting, I just completely forgot I didn\u2019t have clothes on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What modified? Well, there was a short lived suspension of the statute of limitations for claims of kid sexual abuse in California \u2014 which ended on December 31, in order that they received in proper underneath the wire.<\/p>\n<p>What do YOU consider the actors\u2019 lawsuit?<\/p>\n<p><em>[Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ECFftsOyzd0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paramount<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hwWsAUpr9eM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] [Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] A pair totally different generations grew up figuring out about this controversy! Before\u00a0Leonardo DiCaprio and\u00a0Claire Danes and\u00a0The Cardigans, the Romeo and Juliet\u00a0each eighth grade literature class needed to watch was the 1968 model directed by Franco Zeffirelli. It was an enormous hit that was nominated for 4 Oscars, and for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}