CHILD ACTORS FROM ROMEO AND JULIET, NOW IN THEIR 70S, SUE THE STUDIO OVER A NUDITY SCENE

The actors who played Romeo and Juliet in1968 movie are accusing Paramount Pictures of abusing children for their brief naked scene.PhotoCredit@youtube

When they played the lead roles in the William Shakespearean tragedy that won an Oscar, Leonard Whiting was 16 and Olivia Hussey was 15 years old.PhotoCredit@Quartet 

He said that the defendants were dishonest and secretly filmed the naked children in bedroom scene without their knowledge for movie's business PhotoCredit@People 

According to the lawsuit, Zeffirelli, who passed away in 2019, coerced the performers into acting the scenePhotoCredit@Variety 

He insisting  there would be no actual nudity and that they would both be dressed in flesh-coloured underwear, warning them that without it, "the picture will fail."PhotoCredit@In

According to them, they allegedly suffered mental anguish and emotional distress in the five and a half decades following the release of the moviePhotoCredit@NewYorkPost