A lawsuit brought by 'Romeo and Juliet' actors Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting claiming a nude scene they filmed was child pornography was dismissed by a judge Thursday.
A judge tossed a lawsuit brought by the actors in Franco Zeffirelli'sActors Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, who are now 72, originally claimed that a nude scene in the 1968 film was child pornography and that the pair had been sexually abused while filming it.to dismiss the lawsuit brought by Hussey, who played Juliet at age 15, and Whiting, who played Romeo at 16.
A lawsuit brought by"Romeo and Juliet" actors Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey was dismissed Thursday. The film and its theme song were major hits at the time, and — despite the nude scene that briefly shows Whiting's bare buttocks and Hussey's bare breasts — it was played for generations of high school students studying Shakespeare's tragedy.
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