Long after the film was released, many speculated that its sex scenes were real. 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 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. 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. They only told me about it before we had to film the scene and I was so angry. The truth is it was Marlon who came up with the idea. “That scene wasn’t in the original script. Schneider herself told the Daily Mail in 2007 that no intercourse occurred on the set of the film - but was clear about her objections to the scene. But many who read reports or saw tweets about it came to understand that Schneider was raped. The interview was not new - the “You Must Remember This” podcast, for one, cited it in 2014. I wanted her to react and she felt humiliated… and I think that she hated me and also Marlon because we didn’t tell her that there was that detail of the butter used as a lubricant.” “Because I wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress. “I’d been in a way horrible to Maria because I didn’t tell her what was going on,” he said. 23 in which Bertolucci admitted Schneider hated him because of the butter scene. The stories originated with a YouTube user posting a 2013 interview on Nov. “To all the people that love this film- you’re watching a 19yr old get raped by a 48yr old man. The rape story gained traction days ago, when Yahoo ran the headline: “Bertolucci admits infamous Last Tango ‘butter’ rape scene was non-consensual.” A Variety headline Saturday read, “‘Last Tango in Paris’ Rape Scene Was Not Consensual, Director Bernardo Bertolucci Admits.”Īlso Read: Evan Rachel Wood Is 'Taking a Break From Social Media' After Rape TweetĪ Time tweet Saturday went further: “Last Tango in Paris’ director admits controversial butter rape scene was really rape.” And others - including actress Jessica Chastain - took the stories to mean an actual rape took place. In fact, she said she felt “a little bit raped” by her director and co-star because they manipulated and coerced her into doing the scene, which was not in the original script. The 1972 film “Last Tango in Paris” was pilloried across the internet this weekend over the belief that director Bernardo Bertolucci had admitted that a rape scene between stars Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider was an actual rape.īut in an interview a decade ago, Schneider herself said that no sex of any kind took place during the scene, in which then-48-year-old Brando’s character uses butter to have anal sex with the 19-year-old Schneider.