She added: "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, but at the time, I didn't know that."īertolucci responded to the renewed controversy on Monday, saying in a statement in Italian that it was based on "a ridiculous misunderstanding," Variety reported. 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," she said. Schneider, who died in 2011 after a long battle with cancer, told the Daily Mail in 2007 that the scene "wasn't in the original script" Brando had come up with the idea and she was only told right before they had to film that part. (A fuller version was uploaded to YouTube in 2013). Last week, Spanish nonprofit El Mundo de Alycia published the interview clip with Bertolucci, adding Spanish subtitles and posting the video on its website in recognition of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25. Similar remarks had been previously reported, but didn't generate this level of outcry until now. In the clip from a 2013 press tour, Bertolucci describes how he and Brando had come up with the idea to use the butter in the scripted rape scene, but did not tell Schneider "what was going on, because I wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress. But over the weekend, a clip of director Bernardo Bertolucci talking about the scene resurfaced, setting off wide media attention and sparking outrage in Hollywood. Nearly a decade ago, Maria Schneider revealed the unsettling details surrounding an infamous rape scene in the 1972 drama Last Tango in Paris, in which Marlon Brando's character uses butter as a lubricant before forcing himself on her.
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