{"id":28,"date":"2008-01-01T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewildeye.co.uk\/2008\/01\/01\/olivia-hussey-on-romeo-and-juliet\/"},"modified":"2008-01-01T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T18:28:00","slug":"olivia-hussey-on-romeo-and-juliet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/performers-directors\/olivia-hussey-on-romeo-and-juliet\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Hussey on Romeo and Juliet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just trawling through some old issues of The Darkside<\/a>, and the<\/span><\/span>re an interview with Olivia Hussey in Issue #122. Ms Hussey, of course, is possibly best known now for her role in Black Sunday<\/b>, but she was also no stranger to European Cinema, also appearing in Micheal Anderson’s La bottega dell’orefice<\/b> and Antonio Isasi’s Summertime Killer<\/b>, not to mention bigger budget, better known films like Death on the Nile<\/b>. Here’s what she says about making her debut in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet<\/b><\/p>\n

“Well, it was a lot to digest and I was very, very young. I was only 15 and it was a lot of things quickly. I was always very shy and private and during that time I was the most famous young actress in the world. I got so afraid of people and felt like I was living in a glass bowl. It was very tough at that age and at that time to live with that. But to play a role like Juliet was incredible. Roles like that, as you know, do not come along that often’.<\/p>\n

Considering she was such a talented actress, it’s a shame that she’s not as well known nowadays. But, then again, she’s still done a lot better than her co-star in that film, Leonard Whiting (who was just as feted for his performance in the international festivals). Whiting only made a handful of other films (including Comencini’s Infanzia, vocazione e prime esperienze di Giacomo Casanova, veneziano<\/b> (69)) before disappearing from the screen in the early seventies. Here’s an interesting Leonard Whiting tribute site<\/a> that has a little info about what’s happened to him since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just trawling through some old issues of The Darkside, and there an interview with Olivia Hussey in Issue #122. Ms Hussey, of course, is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}