The then-teenage actors who starred in 1968’s 'Romeo and Juliet' filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, arguing that director Franco Zeffirelli forced them to perform in the nude.
As the recent conviction of Harvey Weinstein and the rape charges filed againstproducer Eric Weinberg attest, we are scarcely done confronting Hollywood’s long and shameful history of powerful men sexually assaulting those beneath them.
Yet that conduct is hardly limited to rape and other violent acts. Sometimes the behavior is seemingly less criminal but potentially no less insidious.filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures this week, arguing that director Franco Zeffirelli forced them to perform in the nude, despite promises to the contrary.Become a sponsor
The allegations made by Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, who are now in their 70s, not only sound plausible but also very familiar: I know several actors who were initially told they wouldn’t have to perform nude or topless, only to be aggressively encouraged to do otherwise once they arrived on set.
The practice was so prevalent in pay cable television some 20 years ago that it sparked a joke that actors would tell—playing off the marketing tag, “It’s not TV. It’s HBO”—that went “It’s not nudity. It’s HBO.”
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