A lawsuit over a nude scene in the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet is protected by the First Amendment, a judge has ruled. In January, it had been reported that the stars of the movie, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, filed a lawsuit against Paramount because of a scene that featured the two of them nude in a bedroom together. At the time of filming, Hussey was 15 and Whiting was 16, and they argued in their lawsuit that they couldn't have legally consented to appearing nude on film. The complaint alleged that director Franco Zeffirelli and the studio had coerced the teen actors into filming the scene, and for mental anguish and negative impacts to their careers, the two wanted no less than $500 million.
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