Romeo and Juliet balcony scene starring Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting in the 1968 film.
Have YOU got a story? Email. READ MORE:A lawsuit from the leading actors in 1968 Paramount movie Romeo and Juliet over a bedroom scene was dismissed for a second time in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday.
Hussey and Whiting again filed a suit earlier this year, saying in legal docs in February that a 2023 re-release of the film by Criterion - that had been restored with digital technology - had opened a new window for legal action. Hussey and Whiting claimed in legal docs in their 2022 suit that their depiction in the film was akin to 'child pornography,' which Judge Alison Mackenzie disagreed with, saying in her ruling the bedroom scene was not 'sufficiently sexually suggestive' to justify the claim.
Fujie said 'appearances and statements made by' Hussey and Whiting 'during interviews,' as well as their 'attendance at film festivals' indicated they 'did not object to the continuing release and distribution of the successive releases.' Their suit was first tossed in May 2023, with the presiding judge at the time saying that the statute of limitations had passed
Hussey told the outlet that despite defending the bedroom scene for years, she was traumatized by it. Whiting said his ire was not directed toward the late filmmaker Zeffirelli, who died at 96 in 2019: 'It's totally wrong to think there's a problem between Olivia and I and Franco. That's absolute nonsense.'
Mackenzie in her ruling said that the actors 'have not put forth any authority showing the film here can be deemed to be sufficiently sexually suggestive as a matter of law to be held to be conclusively illegal.' Despite those assurances, they were filmed in the nude without their knowledge, in violation of California and federal laws against indecency and the exploitation of children, the suit alleged.
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