

The “thrusting, jabbing eroticism” that Pauline Kael found so fascinating in her review of the film will feel erotic only to those who can’t spell the word “sex.”Īnd if Schneider was speaking the truth when she told journalists that Brando was the one who came up with the idea for the butter scene*, then the actor should have asked a body double to perform it in his place.

Marlon Brando: Last Tango in Paris Blame GameĪfter Marlon Brando died in 2004, Maria Schneider watched Last Tango in Paris once again and found it “kitsch.” Watching the infamous butter scene below – in which Schneider’s character gets raped with a little butter used as lubricant – one can see why.
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Then she hated me for all of her life,” he added.Īctors and celebrity social media users reacted angrily with many dubbing it as 19-year-old being raped by a 46-year-old actor.

I didn’t want Maria to act her humiliation, her rage, I wanted Maria to feel… the rage and humilation. 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. He said that he did not regret his decision but was sorry particularly because the actor later died of cancer. In the infamous scene, Marlon uses a stick of butter as a lubricant to rape Schneider’s character Jeanne.īertolucci said, “”The sequence of the butter is an idea that I had with Marlon in the morning before shooting,” In the video, Bertolucci is seen admitting that the rape scene using butter as lubricant with star Maria Schneider was never consensual.Īt the time of the shooting, actor Marlon Brando was 46, while Maria was just 19.īertolucci said that he and Marlon had secretly conspired to shoot the rape scene without Maria’s knowledge because he wanted his lead female actor to feel the humiliation and not act it. A new video of Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci making sensational confession about the infamous rape scene has now gone viral.
