Some, like actress Jenna Fischer, took a more extreme stance, writing that "all copies of this film should be destroyed immediately." As a woman, I am horrified, disgusted and enraged by it," DuVernay wrote.Ĭhris 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." "As a director, I can barely fathom this. Goodbye ‘Godsend': Expiration of Child Tax Credits Hits Homeīut despite Schneider's past comments, the video interview with Bertolucci struck a chord this weekend as it circulated on social media that the director was admitting that the scene was non-consensual.Īctress 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 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.
"They only told me about it before we had to film the scene, and I was so angry," Schneider said. 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. A recently unearthed video interview with Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci from 2013 has renewed interest, and outrage, over what happened to actress Maria Schneider on set during the infamous butter rape scene.īertolucci 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." He wanted her, he said, to feel "the rage and the humiliation." I wanted Maria to feel, not to act, the rage and humiliation." So not only is it awful enough that Schneider's account of the incident went largely unreported, but the director himself admitted to it and it was ignored for three years.īertolucci's response, calling the outrage a "ridiculous misunderstanding" and the use of the butter in the scene as a "novelty" doesn't help his case in any way, and is incredibly disappointing."Last Tango in Paris" is making headlines again 44 years after the controversial film came out.
Then there's Bertolucci's admission from 2013, in which he admitted that he manipulated Schneider, saying he "didn’t want Maria to act her humiliation, her rage. At the time, Schneider said she felt "humiliated" and "cried real tears" about the scene. The resurfaced reports incited outrage for many reasons - the first of which being that Schneider spoke out about the anguish she felt back in 2006, which largely went unnoticed. Not the violence that she is subjected to in the scene, which was written in the screenplay." The only novelty was the idea of the butter."Īccording to Variety, Bertolucci adds, "And that, as I learned many years later, offended Maria. That is false! Maria knew everything because she had read the script, where it was all described. 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 Cinematèque Francais someone asked me for details on the famous butter scene. “I would like, for the last time, to clear up a ridiculous misunderstanding that continues to generate press reports about Last Tango in Paris around the world.
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