The actress also said she felt manipulated by Bertolucci throughout the filming of Last Tango, and that the public reaction to the film - which earned both acclaim and criticism for its explicit sexual content - sent her into a tailspin. Schneider said that Brando did not apologize to her after the scene, but that they had a close relationship in general and remained friends after shooting was finished. “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,” she added. “The truth is it was Marlon who came up with the idea.” “That scene wasn’t in the original script,” Schneider told the Daily Mail. Then he uses it as lubrication as he anally rapes her, leaving her weeping. One day, when Jeanne arrives at the apartment, he tells her to bring him a stick of butter from the kitchen. Paul and Jeanne are already lovers, but Paul is increasingly brutal, both psychologically and physically. The infamous scene occurs about halfway through the film.
Brando was 48 when the film was made, Bertolucci was in his early thirties, and Schneider was 19. Last Tango in Paris tells the story of an affair between an older widower and a young woman, who meet when they both view an apartment for rent in Paris. Maria Schneider spoke publicly about the scene in 2007 But that argument reveals a fundamental inequity that the #MeToo movement is only beginning to expose: In Hollywood, some people, most of them men, have the power to decide what makes great art - and who deserves to get hurt in order to create it. And in a time of reckoning around sexual misconduct, misogyny, and abuse of power in Hollywood, it deserves to be remembered as part of his legacy.īertolucci argued that it was necessary to humiliate Schneider in order to make his film. But it was an incident of real sexual humiliation nonetheless, by all accounts. “I wanted Maria to feel, not to act,” he said.īrando didn’t actually penetrate Schneider in the scene. The director acknowledged that he’d sprung the butter detail on Schneider at the last minute, because he wanted her onscreen humiliation and rage to be real. The scene became the target of renewed scrutiny beginning in 2016, when a 2013 video clip in which Bertolucci discussed the film went viral. “I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci.” But as Schneider made clear, the feelings of violation we see onscreen aren’t just acting - they’re real. The scene is intended to be violent and disturbing, with Paul hitting Jeanne and penetrating her as she cries. In a 2007 interview with the Daily Mail, Schneider said the scene wasn’t in the original script, and that Brando and Bertolucci had told her about it just before they began filming. Marlon Brando’s character, Paul, rapes actress Maria Schneider’s character, Jeanne, using a stick of butter as lubricant.
Bernardo Bertolucci, who died on Monday at the age of 77, has received widespread acclaim for his decades of filmmaking, winning Oscars, Golden Globes, and the first-ever Honorary Palme d’Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011.īut one part of his career has been the subject of increasing scrutiny in recent years: a rape scene in Bertolucci’s 1972 film Last Tango in Paris.
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