Actress Olivia Hussey, awarded a Golden Globe for her role in Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli in 1968, left this world on Friday December 27, at the age of 73, as his loved ones announced with pain on Instagram. “ Olivia was a remarkable person whose warmth, wisdom and pure kindness touched the lives of all who knew her. Born on April 17, 1951 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Olivia lived a life full of passion, love and dedication to the arts, spirituality and kindness towards animals », wrote those close to him with emotion.
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Olivia Hussey opens up about her relationship with Leonard Whiting: “ It wasn’t like today… »
Olivia Hussey leaves behind her husband of 35 years, David Glen Eisley, their three children, Alex, Max and India, as well as many film fans marked by her career and in particular by her incarnation of William Shakespeare’s Juliet, at the age 15 years old. At the end of the 1960s, spectators were captivated by the performance of the teenager and that of her Romeo, Leonard Whiting, so much so that many people attributed a real romance to the two young actors.
« Leonard and I held hands, we kissed. I had never been with anyone before filming the movie », Confided Olivia Hussey in her memoirs entitled The Girl on the Balcony: Olivia Hussey Finds Life After Romeo & Juliet (The girl on the balcony: Olivia Hussey discovers life after Romeo and Juliet), as reported by our colleagues from Variety. And to add: “ I think we kind of saw each other as boyfriend and girlfriend, but young, it was childish love. It wasn’t like today. A 15-year-old girl today has much lighter morals than in the past. »
