Day in and day out, they would sneak off the set of their new movie or sit lost amid a swirl of drea
Day in and day out, they would sneak off the set of their new movie or sit lost amid a swirl of dreams, real-life versions of the lovers they would later play, Romeo and Juliet, whose lesson they would have done well to learn, “violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die.” “Whether they thought they were fooling anybody, I don’t know,” said a crew member. “But we all knew that here were two people hopelessly in love.” What drew them to each other with such fierce power, blinding them to all sense of duty and danger, even to right and wrong, pushing them to the point where, every night, they were about to run away? It was a virus, a disease, a compulsion as mighty as any in legend or myth. “Real passion - I’ve only seen it that once,” Jill Esmond told Tarquin Olivier. “If you are ever hit by it, God help you. There’s nothing you can do.” - Stephen Galloway -- source link
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