Adolescent stars of 'Romeo and Juliet' sue over nakedness in 1968 film
At the point when Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet was first delivered in 1968, a short scene of its young star-crossed darlings awakening in bed together bare caused
what film pundit Roger Ebert depicted as "a ton of quarrel," including blasting titles that Sovereign Elizabeth II had seen the scene at the London debut.
Procuring two Oscars and basic recognition, the film turned into an exemplary variation of the Shakespearean misfortune and a staple of numerous English homerooms for a really long time.
However, presently, over 50 years after the fact, the two entertainers who depicted the nominal characters, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting,
have documented a claim against the film's merchant, Vital Pictures, guaranteeing that the room scene was misleading shot
at the point when they were underage and that they had been guaranteed that no bareness would be remembered for the end result.
The claim, documented Friday in Los Angeles Predominant Court, lays a significant part of the fault for the double dealing at the feet of Zeffirelli,
the bucket in 2019, however it states that Fundamental Pictures "knew or ought to have known pictures of offended parties' bare bodies weresubtly and unlawfully acquired during the presentation."
Juliet remains for the most part tucked under the sheet, prior to jumping up — her exposed chest showing momentarily.