The film's reputation has been badly hit by the controversy. ![]() Hollywood star Jessica Chastain, who would later play a leading role in the #MeToo and Time's Up movement, tweeted: "To all the people that love this film - you're watching a 19-year-old get raped by a 48-year-old man. Then she hated me for all of her life."īertolucci caused further fury in 2016 when a video surfaced of him admitting that he and Brando came up with the idea for the butter on the morning of the shoot. I didn't want Maria to act her humiliation, her rage, I wanted Maria to feel. "To obtain something I think you have to be completely free. I think she hated me and also Marlon because we didn't tell her. The Italian director said he wanted to get capture the real reaction of "a girl" at being raped by a much older man. Read also: 'Last Tango In Paris' director Bertolucci dies She was too young to take the impact of the unexpected and brutal success of the film," he added. "Maria accused me of stealing her youth and its only now that I ask myself if she wasn't half right. When she died in 2011, Bertolucci admitted that he "should have apologized" for his treatment of her, and that he felt horrible "in a way" about it. "He was fat and sweaty and very manipulative, both of Marlon and myself, and would do certain things to get a reaction from me," Schneider insisted. Yet Schneider went on to make some 50 movies and became an advocate for women's and actors' rights, walking off the set of Caligula in 1974 reportedly declaring, "I am an actress, not a prostitute". The actress, who later attempted suicide, was traumatized by the film, according to her cousin Vanessa Schneider, who has just published an account of her life, cut short by cancer at age 58. After the scene, Marlon didn't console me or apologize. "I felt humiliated and to be honest I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. ![]() Marlon said to me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie.' But during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears. Read also: 'Last Tango in Paris' rape scene revelation sparks outrage The Italian Oscar-nominated director went on to share they concealed the true nature of the scene from Schneider so Bertolucci could capture her reaction “as a girl, not an actress.”Ī screenshot of the infamous scene, (Source: Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)."I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set because you can't force someone to do something that isn't in the script," she said later. ![]() “There was a baguette, there was butter and we looked at each other and, without saying anything, we knew what we wanted.” “We were having, with Marlon, breakfast on the floor of the flat where I was shooting,” he said. The confession comes in a recently resurfaced interview from 2013.īertolucci was said to have planned the scene with then 48-year-old Marlon Brando, who knowingly played the attacker in the film, over breakfast. Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci has admitted he filmed the rape scene that used a stick of butter as lubricant without the consent of then 19-year-old actress Maria Schneider. ![]() It was the scene that captured an unflinching look at a young woman forced to endure the most violent of acts. TRIGGER WARNING: The following story may contain information that is distressing to some readers.
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