For blindsiding her, Hussey’s relationship with Zeffirelli and Minnelli tumbled for sometime (particularly with Liza). Olivia said of the situation “I was stunned. Liza and I would often talk about work, and I had told her how excited I was to play Marguerite Gautier. How it was the role of a lifetime, and how Franco would bring it to life. I had said that he was a genius and I loved him and that he was adapting the work with me in mind. It was like I was handing it to her, the way I described it. I felt betrayed. I understood that having an Oscar-winning name like Liza’s attached would help Franco get the picture made. Directors, in my experience, will do anything to get a project off the ground, and I really couldn’t blame him (although in my heart I did). But Liza? How could she go behind my back like that? She wouldn’t even have known about Camille if I hadn’t talked it up.”