{"id":1938093,"date":"2023-05-25T17:10:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T21:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-throws-out-romeo-and-juliet-stars-lawsuit-over-nude-scene\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T21:13:09","slug":"judge-throws-out-romeo-and-juliet-stars-lawsuit-over-nude-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-throws-out-romeo-and-juliet-stars-lawsuit-over-nude-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit over nude scene in &#8216;Romeo and Juliet&#8217; dismissed by judge."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-throws-out-romeo-and-juliet-stars-lawsuit-over-nude-scene%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1938093&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Judge Throws Out Lawsuit from \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d Stars Over Nude Scenes<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a recent ruling, a judge dismissed the lawsuit filed by Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, the teenage stars of the 1968 film \u201cRomeo and Juliet,\u201d who claimed they were coerced into performing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-started-to-sob-salma-hayek-on-filming-desperado-sex-scene\/\" title=\"\u2018I Started To Sob\u2019: Salma Hayek On Filming \u2018Desperado\u2019 Sex Scene\">nude scenes<\/a> by director Franco Zeffirelli. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-trump-company-will-not-have-to-pay-michael-cohens-legal-bills\/\" title=\"Judge Rules Trump Company Will Not Have to Pay Michael Cohen's Legal Bills\">judge stated<\/a> that the film could not be deemed illegal and that the lawsuit was barred by the statute of limitations.<\/p>\n<h3>The Allegations<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hussey and Whiting filed the lawsuit just as 2022 ended, claiming that Zeffirelli had promised there would be no actual nudity in the film and that their bedroom scene would feature them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-throws-out-romeo-and-juliet-stars-lawsuit-over-nude-scene\/\" title=\"Lawsuit over nude scene in 'Romeo and Juliet' dismissed by judge.\">wearing flesh-colored underwear<\/a>. However, as filming progressed, Zeffirelli allegedly asked them to perform nude with body makeup, threatening that without doing so, \u201cthe Picture would fail.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Ruling<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The judge dismissed the lawsuit\u2019s claim that the scenes constituted \u201cchild pornography\u201d and stated that the film could not be deemed illegal. The lawsuit was also barred by the statute of limitations. Hussey and Whiting were 15 and 16 years old, respectively, at the time of filming.<\/p>\n<h3>The Actors\u2019 Response<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romeo-and-juliet-stars-who-were-15-16-sue-over-nude-scene\/\" title=\"\u2018Romeo And Juliet\u2019 Stars, 16 Years Old, Sue over Nude Scene\">actors\u2019 business manager stated<\/a> that they trusted Zeffirelli and took his lead, believing he would not violate their trust. \u201cFranco was their friend, and frankly, at 16, what do they do? There are no options. There was no #MeToo,\u201d he said. The actors\u2019 attorney declared that the nude scenes violated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boyfriend-material\/\" title=\"Boyfriend Material\">young actors<\/a> in a way they didn\u2019t know how to deal with.<\/p>\n<h3>Hussey\u2019s Perspective<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a 2018 interview with Variety, Hussey spoke about the nude scene, saying, \u201cNobody my age had done that before. It was needed for the film.\u201d She called Zeffirelli a \u201cgenius\u201d and praised his ability to bring characters to life. \u201cIf I could have, I would have just worked with Franco,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ruling brings an end to the lawsuit filed by Hussey and Whiting over the nude scenes in \u201cRomeo and Juliet.\u201d While the actors claimed they were coerced into performing the scenes, the judge dismissed the lawsuit, stating that the film could not be deemed illegal and that the lawsuit was barred by the statute of limitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lost their case as the judge dismissed the lawsuit filed by Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, the teenage stars of the 1968 film \u201cRomeo and Juliet\u201d. They claimed that they were forced to perform nude scenes by the director Franco Zeffirelli. However, the judge rejected their claims and ruled in favor of the director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1938094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[13199,4928,5387,13198,4585,9740,6903],"class_list":["post-1938093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-romeo","tag-dismissed","tag-judge","tag-juliet","tag-lawsuit","tag-nude","tag-scene"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}