I wanted her to react and she felt humiliated… and I think that she hated me and also Marlon because we didn’t tell her that there was that detail of the butter used as a lubricant.” (Some have misinterpreted this remark to mean that there was actual sexual penetration in the scene, but there was not.) The latter admitted in a recent Elle story that the film’s infamous rape scene was non-consensual.Īlso Read: No, 'Last Tango in Paris' Director Did Not Say Marlon Brando Committed Rapeīertolucci revealed in a video-taped interview from 2013, posted last week online, that he felt badly about the scene “because I wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress. “They should be in jail,” tweeted Evans, presumably referring to since-deceased actor Marlon Brando and not-deceased director Bernardo Bertolucci. Stars including Anna Kendrick and Chris Evans have now weighed in, adding to much discussed reactions from Jessica Chastain, Evan Rachel Wood, Jenna Fischer and director Ava DuVernay. The only novelty was the idea of the butter.The chorus of Hollywood actors and filmmakers expressing disgust over revelations around a famous rape scene in “Last Tango in Paris” is growing. 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 Cinemathèque Francaise, someone asked me for details on the famous ‘butter scene,’” he said. We knew the script and we knew what we wanted to do, but every morning you come up with different ideas, so you are specifically discussing that scene in that moment.”īertolucci himself also addressed the controversy on Monday with a statement, calling the renewed backlash a “ridiculous misunderstanding.” They added something with Brando in every scene, but that was quite normal. Nothing happened during the shooting.”įor his part, the cinematographer remembers the set of Last Tango in Paris as “fantastic,” a space with “great energy.” He also recalls the day of the butter scene: “Everything was written down, but every morning Bernardo loved to add something.
What Bernardo said later was he would like to apologize to Maria, only because he probably didn’t explain to her at the beginning what was discussed with Brando. “If I remember the interview correctly, probably Bernardo felt that maybe he didn’t explain it completely to Maria from the beginning and that’s why he felt a little guilty and nothing more than that. Storaro continued defending Bertolucci in his T.H.R. “I didn’t tell her what was going on because I wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress,” Bertolucci said by way of explanation. They came up with the idea the morning the scene was to be filmed-but allegedly decided not to inform Schneider, who was 19 at the time, about the butter detail. The 1972 film, which probably isn’t going anywhere, was propelled to global attention again last week, when a 2013 video interview of Bertolucci resurfaced In the clip, the director explained that he and star Marlon Brando decided together to use butter as a lubricant during a scene in which Brando’s character rapes the woman played by his co-star Maria Schneider. That was something made up by a journalist.” I was there with two cameras and nothing happened. I read that there was a kind of violence made on her, but that’s not true. I think the journalists are making an issue that is not really an issue. “I was really disgusted by what was written, which is not true at all. “It’s something that some ignorant journalist put together,” he said. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the three-time Oscar winner, who’s worked on legendary films including Apocalypse Now and Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor, called a recently unearthed revelation about the movie’s infamous “butter” rape scene “ridiculous.” Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, who worked on Last Tango in Paris alongside director Bernardo Bertolucci, has caught wind of the renewed controversy surrounding the movie-and he’s not happy about it.
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