{"id":91066,"date":"2023-01-08T16:40:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T00:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=91066"},"modified":"2023-01-08T16:40:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T00:40:55","slug":"romeo-juliet-franco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2023\/01\/08\/romeo-juliet-franco\/","title":{"rendered":"Romeo &#038; Juliet &#038; Franco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When director <strong>Franco Zeffirelli <\/strong>released <strong><em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em><\/strong> in 1968, there was quite a hubbub about the nudity of both <strong>Olivia Hussey <\/strong>and <strong>Leonard Whiting<\/strong>.&nbsp; On one hand, the stars were applauded for their performances \u2013 particularly being roughly the same age as the characters (Hussey was 15, Whiting was 16).&nbsp; On the other hand, the film not only showed the teens in sexual situations, but also in various degrees of undress.&nbsp; This led to the stars recently filing a suit against <em>Paramount Pictures <\/em>for $500 million!&nbsp; You might be wondering why they are coming forward half a century later.&nbsp; Apparently there\u2019s some statute of limitations that was about to run out.&nbsp; In the complaint, they claim that Zeffirelli told them that no nudity would be in the final cut.&nbsp; Of course, he died in 2019 \u2013 so we can\u2019t ask him.&nbsp; But as recently as 2018, Hussey defended the nudity saying, \u201cIt was needed for the film.\u201d&nbsp; She added, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that big of a deal.\u201d&nbsp; The suit claims that the nudity impacted their careers.&nbsp; \u201cPlaintiffs have also suffered a lifetime of loss of earnings and other employment benefits and job opportunities, and will continue to suffer such losses.\u201d&nbsp; Correct me if I\u2019m wrong, but I don\u2019t recall either of them having thriving careers before!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When director Franco Zeffirelli released Romeo and Juliet in 1968, there was quite a hubbub about the nudity of both Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting.&nbsp; On one hand, the stars were applauded for their performances \u2013 particularly being roughly the same age as the characters (Hussey was 15, Whiting was 16).&nbsp; On the other hand,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91067,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91066\/revisions\/91067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}