When Bertolucci confessed to having s-xually assaulted Maria Schneider with Marlon Brando
In February 2011, Parisian Maria Schneider died of a battle with cancer at the young age of 58. Her life was marked by drug addiction, a suicide attempt and by 'Last tango in Paris', the film that made her famous at the age of 19 and which was a real trauma for her. The interpreter spoke on several occasions about the famous "butter" scene, commenting that Bernardo Bertolucci and Marlon Brando carried it out without her permission.
On the occasion of the Week against Gender Violence, the blog El mundo de Alycia has rescued this terrible fact and, in particular, the confession that the director made in 2013. The video in which the person in charge of tapes such as 'The Last Emperor ' confesses the truth of Schneider's words was already known, but the website has subtitled the interview in an unprecedented way with the intention of making it known to a greater number of people.
In the interview, Bertolucci confesses that the scene in question was an idea that he planned together with the protagonist the morning before filming it without telling the actress anything. "I didn't tell her what was going to happen because I wanted her reaction as a child, not as an actress. I wanted her to react to the act of humiliation, for her to feel the screams," the director said. Despite having been a real ordeal for a young and innocent Schneider, he does not regret having carried it out. "To make movies...sometimes to get something I think we have to be completely cold," he said. "Guilty, but not sorry."
The Case of Evan Rachel Wood
Unfortunately, this is not an issue of the past, far from it, but it is quite ingrained today. S-xism is still present, but luckily, the voices that have suffered abuse make us increasingly aware of it. Evan Rachel Wood has been the last to speak about the ordeal she suffered.
"I have been r-ped. By a couple while we were together. And on a different occasion, by a bar owner. I don't think we live in a time where people can stay silent any longer. Not given the state in the that our world finds itself in, with its blatant bigotry and s-xism.
