Hussey was 16 at the time of the film’s production, while Whiting was 15.

Paramount and Criterion did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment.

Leonard Whiting plays Romeo Montague and Olivia Hussey plays Juliet Capulet in the 1968 production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey in 1968’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’.Bettmann Archive