She was only 15 and he just 16 when they played literature’s most famous lovers and in the process became the world’s most talked-about teenagers.Plucked for stardom by director Franco Zeffirelli in his stunning 1968 film adaptation of Romeo And Juliet, young British actors Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting were hailed as the beautiful faces of a new generation of Swinging Sixties screen talent — especially when they appeared in a controversial nude scene which bared his buttocks and her breasts.They gave an electrifying performance as the star-crossed lovers that not only seemed to sum up the youthful and rebellious spirit of the age but struck a chord with generations of teenage audiences by highlighting just how young Romeo and Juliet were in Shakespeare’s play.
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