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Schneider, a relative unknown when she was cast in the film, said that the "whole circus" of suddenly being famous made her turn to drugs and she even attempted suicide a few times. Some, like actress Jenna Fischer, took a more extreme stance, writing that "all copies of this film should be destroyed immediately." I feel rage Evans also expressed his rage and said it was "beyond disgusting," while Anna Kendrick weighed in that she "used to get eye-rolls" when she brought the incident up to people previously and that she was "glad at least it will be taken seriously now." I will never look at this film, Bertolucci or Brando the same way again. As a woman, I am horrified, disgusted and enraged by it," DuVernay wrote.

"As a director, I can barely fathom this. Hollywood reacts with disgustĪctress Jessica Chastain wrote on Twitter that she felt "sick" over the revelation that "the director planned her attack."įilmmaker Ava DuVernay called it "inexcusable." I felt humiliated and, to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and Bertolucci."īut despite Schneider's past comments, the video interview with Bertolucci - from a masterclass he gave in Paris in 2013 - struck a chord this weekend. "During the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears. But at the time, I didn't know that," Schneider said. "They only told me about it before we had to film the scene, and I was so angry. 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. Schneider, who died in 2011 at age 58 after a lengthy illness, spoke a number of times about the scene between her, then aged 19, and Marlon Brando, then 48, even saying in a 2007 Daily Mail interview that she "felt a little raped" by her co-star and director.

Last Tango in Paris actress Maria Schneider dies.

Not the violence that she is subjected to in the scene, which was written in the screenplay," he added. And that, as I learned many years later, offended Maria. The only novelty was the idea of the butter. "Maria knew everything because she had read the script, where it was all described. That is false!" the director wrote, according to trade publication Variety.

Somebody thought, and thinks, that Maria had not been informed about the violence on her. We wanted her spontaneous reaction to that improper use. I specified, but perhaps I was not clear, that I decided with Marlon Brando not to inform Maria that we would have used butter.

"Several years ago at the Cinémathèque Française, someone asked me for details on the famous butter scene. That is false! - Bernardo Bertolucciįacing a wave of condemnation that emerged as the interview resurfaced this past weekend, Bertolucci called the backlash "a ridiculous misunderstanding" in a response he issued in Italian on Monday. He wanted her, he said, to feel "the rage and the humiliation." Somebody thought, and thinks, that Maria had not been informed about the violence on her. In the interview, Bertolucci said that neither he nor Marlon Brando told Schneider of their plans to use the stick of butter during the simulated rape scene - a concept they came up with the morning of the shoot - because he wanted her to react "as a girl not as an actress." Last Tango in Paris is making headlines again 44 years after the controversial film came out.Ī recently re-posted video interview with Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci from 2013 has renewed interest, and sparked fresh outrage in Hollywood, over what happened to actress Maria Schneider on set during the infamous butter rape scene.