The son of late Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli hit back at a pair of actors who accused his father of child abuse over a nude scene filmed in 1968.
The son of famed late Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli spoke out against a lawsuit brought forward last month bystarlets Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, claiming sexual exploitation by Paramount Studios over a nude scene in the iconic Shakespearean adaptation. The actors, now in their early seventies, were just 15 and 16 at the time of filming—when Zeffirelli allegedly told them to perform a bedroom scene nude as opposed to in the flesh-colored bodysuits that had been promised.
“Zeffirelli himself was accused of being reactionary precisely because, over and over again, he spoke out against pornography,” Pippo Zeffirelli, his son, said in a statement on Sunday, pointing out that Hussey had continued to work with the director after the fact. He also added that Whiting attended his funeral in 2019.
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