They don't make love until they have been married.' It was a different time, back then! It will be romantic and age-appropriate for a 14-year-old.' Julian Fellowes added, 'We did feel it would be nice to have romantic, married love, and that purity was an important part of the film. As soon as Hailee Steinfeld was cast, all nudity and lovemaking have been excised from the script. This script was written with a 20-year-old actress in mind. Director Carlo Carlei explained 'there was a lovemaking scene that included nudity for the married Romeo and Juliet. Hailee Steinfeld was said to be in talks for the lead role as Juliet in this adaptation, but due to Steinfeld's young age, there was some concern she would be asked to appear nude in the film. Many critics loudly complain about lack of passion, but I did not notice that at all! Even Damian Lewis as Lord Capulet, Kodi Smit-McPhee as Benvolio Montague, Ed Westwick as Tybalt and Paul Giamatti as Friar Laurence did a good job. We have Douglas Booth as Romeo Montague and Hailee Steinfeld as Juliet Capulet - both gorgeous young acting stars, and they did pretty good job. Maybe, but I really think this is the best version to attract the audience which never read or watched the play. This has led to a controversy, with several critics denouncing the film's advertising as misleading, and losing the essence of the play. Like Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy, this film uses the traditional setting of Renaissance Verona, but, unlike any of the previous major film adaptations only follows the plot and only uses some of Shakespeare's traditional dialogue.

This is the latest British/Italian/Suiss adaptation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name directed by Carlo Carlei.

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