FirstLoveMovies

Ziggy Plock wrote: Also, in Murder by Numbers, the male actor is 21, and she's 15. I remember an interview with Natalie Portman, explaining why she didn't do the Julliete part in "Romeo+Julliette", she said that she was 14 at the time, and she and/or her parents didn't think it was a good plan to do scenes with Leo Dicaprio who was 21 at the time. Even though I think that is a pity, I can understand that. ==> again, point for me because Murder by Numbers is the exception.

Ziggy Plock wrote: Sat Mar 05, 2022 10:18 pm I can't think of another mainstream Hollywood movie where the actress was actually not even 16 during such a scene.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063518

At age 15, when most young women are nurturing dreams of romance, Olivia Hussey was giving life to Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968). Her performance in one of the most celebrated roles ever written in the English language won her the Golden Globe and two successive Best Actor Donatello Awards (Italy's Oscar equivalent), an incredible achievement for an actress in only her third film.

We often lose sight of the fact that it takes time to release a film after the shooting has completed.

"Murder by Numbers"

The jump to the cinema would come from the hand of Ricardo Franco and «El Sueño de Tánger». Maribel was only 14 years old and was already facing her first nude and her first sex scene: «Not only was she a virgin, but she hadn't had a boyfriend. I've done it all before in the cinema than in life ». "I made love in the cinema long before I really did it," she said, "Ricardo Franco taught me. Imagine Ricardo, with how small he was, climbed on top of a huge Fabio Testi, telling me how he had to move me ». Testi, by the way, "was not exactly a gentleman."
(https://www.lne.es/sociedad-cultura/201 ... 06632.html)

On January 16, 1986, the newspaper El Pais published an article where he gave an account of the financial problems of the film: «Nevertheless, the filming of the film concluded in August in Madrid. In the last days of filming, with the economic problem without solve, the spirits warm up ... ››. The movie was seized and it took five years to release. It was also the newspaper El Pais that picked up his premiere on May 24, 1991: «He was born as a dream of adventures in Morocco, but it became, due to financial problems from the producer, in a real nightmare today, call it a miracle or screen quota is finally over. El Sueño de Tánger, directed by Ricardo Franco and produced by Carlos Escobedo in 1985, ceases to be a damn movie and today comes to theaters in Spain ... ››.
(from the book "Maribel Verdú" - Nuria Vidal - https://books.google.it/books?id=95469dBdeoIC)

Sully23 wrote: Sun Mar 06, 2022 4:44 pm Huff may be 1×02, strangely, it's the only episode I can't find and I can't identify the actress.