The actress María Scheneider denounced having been r-ped and humiliated in a scene from "Last tango in Paris". Bernardo Bertolucci acknowledged that he did not inform the actress that Marlon Brando would use butter instead of lubricant.
Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci passed away today at the age of 77. Considered one of the great geniuses of the seventh art, the director will go down in history for masterpieces such as "The Last Emperor" or "The Last Tango in Paris", but it will not be the only thing for which he will be remembered.
His name will always be associated with butter and controversy. And it is that there are very few who do not remember the s-x scene between Marlon Brando and María Scheneider in that «Last tango in Paris» and the controversy that was created around it.
At one point in the delicate s-x scene, Brando uses butter instead of lube. A fact that became known many years later when the leading actress denounced having felt "humiliated" and a "little violated".
Schneider, who died in 2011 at the age of 58 after a long illness, spoke several times about the scene between her, then 19, and Marlon Brando, 48, even denouncing in a 2007 Daily Mail interview that it was "r-ped" by the well-known actor.
"I should have called my agent or sent my lawyer 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," Schneider said at the time. However, no one wanted to believe that the word "r-pe" was literal. After filming, the young actress returned to drugs and even tried to commit suicide on several occasions.
In a lousy attempt to defend himself, Bertolucci acknowledged that neither he nor Marlon Brando told Schneider of their plans to use butter during the r-pe scene because they wanted her to react "like a child not like an actress." anger and humiliation," he said in an interview.
He later insisted that she Schneider had not been r-ped, that she knew about the controversial r-pe scene and that her "only novelty" was the butter.
"False! Maria knew everything because she had the script, in which everything was described. The only novelty was the butter thing. And that, as I learned many years later, offended Maria, not the r-pe she suffers in the scene and that was foreseen in the script», argued the filmmaker.
As a final climax, the Italian director assured that, although he felt guilty, he did not regret having shot the scene.
After the words of actress María Scheneider and Bertolucci's half-confession, many Hollywood actresses raised their voices to denounce the filmmaker, including the famous Jessica Chastain, who said she felt "sick" at the revelation that "The director planned his attack."
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay called it "inexcusable." "As a director, I can hardly understand it. As a woman, I am horrified, disgusted and enraged by it," DuVernay wrote on the social network. And Chris Evans also expressed anger at him, saying it was "beyond disgusting."
