This post has been briefly updated with additional information. Then she hated me for all of her life.” After shooting the film, Schneider detailed how she fell into a deep depression and refused to do nude scenes again. I didn’t want Maria to act her humiliation, her rage, I wanted her to Maria to feel … the rage and humiliation. “I think she hated me and also Marlon because we didn’t tell her … to obtain something I think you have to be completely free. “I wanted her to react humiliated,” Bertolucci explained at La Cinémathèque Française. Schneider had previously said how the two men only told her about the scene mere moments before it was shot, and expressed regret over not calling an agent or lawyer, because she “didn’t know” that “you can’t force someone to do something that isn’t in the script.” While Bertulocci said he felt horrible “in a way” for his treatment of Schneider, he still didn’t “regret” the way he directed the scene, and justified the decision because he “wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress.” (At the time, Brando was 48, while Schneider was 19.) “The sequence of the butter is an idea that I had with Marlon in the morning before shooting,” Bertulocci said in a newly resurfaced video recorded at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris. I behaved horribly with Maria because I did not tell her what was going to happen because I wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress. Celebrity Videos Scene of violation of 'The last tango in Paris' was real: Bernardo Bertolucci. Prior to her death, Schneider had spoken out about how she felt “humiliated” and “a little raped” while filming the scene - which wasn’t in the original script - despite acknowledging what Brando “was doing wasn’t real.” Now the film’s controversial director, Bernardo Bertolucci, is admitting that he and Brando indeed conspired together to film the scene without Schneider’s consent. Next Video 'Butter Scene' Last Tango in Paris' by Movies4U.
Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.One of the most infamous rape scenes in film history comes from the 1972 erotic-drama Last Tango in Paris, in which Marlon Brando’s character uses a stick of butter to anally rape another character played by Maria Schneider. conspired to film the movie's infamous 'butter' rape scene in which Brando's character uses a stick of. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Real Story of The Last Tango in Paris Rape Scene. “The only novelty was the idea of the butter.” “Maria knew everything because she had read the script, where it was all described,” continues Bertolucci in his new statement. She never shot another nude scene and suffered from depression and addiction issues in the years following “Last Tango.” In 2011, the actress died of cancer. “I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci,” Schneider said in a 2007 Daily Mail interview.
READ MORE: Martin Scorsese Analyzes Marlon Brando in 15-Minute ‘One-Eyed Jacks’ Discussion - Watch Misunderstandings regarding the sexual scenes in the film have long persisted - namely, the false belief that actual intercourse occurred onscreen - and Bertolucci’s comments about the use of butter appear to have only added more fuel to that fire.Īnd while the filmmaker is quick to clarify that it was only the use of the butter that was non-consenual, the effect of filming the scene doubtless left a lasting effect on Schneider.
That is false!”īertolucci’s comments were made in 2013, and video of the event recently surfaced, causing renewed interest and discussion over the acclaimed but controversial film. Somebody thought, and thinks, that Maria had not been informed about the violence on her. We wanted her spontaneous reaction to that improper use. “Several years ago at the Cinemathèque Francaise someone asked me for details on the famous ‘butter scene.’ I specified, but perhaps I was not clear, that I decided with Marlon Brando not to inform Maria that we would have used butter. “I would like, for the last time, to clear up a ridiculous misunderstanding that continues to generate press reports about ‘Last Tango in Paris’ around the world,” begins the statement. READ MORE: ‘Last Tango in Paris’: Director Bernardo Bertolucci Says Infamous Rape Scene Was Not Consensual The filmmaker has now responded with a new statement (translated from Italian) in which he claims that there’s been a “ridiculous misunderstanding” as to what actually occurred. This weekend’s news that an infamous rape scene from Bernardo Bertolucci’s “ Last Tango in Paris” involving actors Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider was indeed non-consensual elicited an immediate uproar online.