The stars of the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet” have sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million over a nude scene shot when they were teens.
FILE - Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, who are playing the title roles in Franco Zeffirelli's"Romeo and Juliet," place flowers on the"Tomba di Giulietta", or the Tomb of Juliet, in Verona, northern Italy, on Oct. 22, 1968. The two stars of 1968's Romeo and Juliet sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, over a nude scene in the film shot when they were teens.
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. 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.
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