I don't know what the big deal was all about anyway. At the time, you get caught up in the role. So they didn't have to watch what was going on in the shooting, which I thought was very respectful and nice. So when we did the bedroom scene, a lot of the men, when they didn't have to, you know, be lighting something, they'd stand there with their backs to us. The acting was as bad as it could be, the plot was even worse, somehow. Filled with the usual nudity, violence and sex. And then the grips at that time, all the men in the crew, you know, got to know us all, and we were the youngest people on the set. Tromeo and Juliet is a trangressive take on the classic Shakespearean tale. It will be done in the best of taste." And once he'd explained how beautiful and how touching-the beauty of it, it was that they were so inexperienced and so young, right?-that it made sense. The film was directed by Lloyd Kaufman from a screenplay by Kaufman and James Gunn, who also served as associate director. And I said, "But why? I'm going to have a long nightgown on." And he said, "Wwelll, that's what Franco-", and I said, "Well, okay." But I went down and I said, "Franco, I've got to at least have the underwear on," and then he'd say, "You know, it's their first night of love, and they're young: nothing will be inappropriate. Tromeo and Juliet is a 1997 American independent transgressive romantic black comedy film and a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet from Troma Entertainment. And when the bedroom scene actually came around, you know, he sent Mauro, the makeup gentleman, to come up to my dressing room-and he said, "Franco wants you made up from head to toe. But it was done so tastefully that it really, you know, I mean-Franco shot it towards the very end of the film, so obviously we'd been working together for months on end. William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, 1, 4 Not half so big as a round little worm. Despite the sweeping romance of the story, Romeo and Juliet take their own lives, disobey their parents, and Romeo even commits murder. 1 Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit. Buried beneath the lyricism and romance is a basic mesaage promoting peace. Well at the time, I don't think anybody this young in English cinema had ever done anything like that. The parents' guide to what's in this movie. Olivia Hussey, talking about her nude scene: Added: 2009 October, 22 | modified: 2021 June, 29 Behind the scenes