They only told me about it before we had to film the scene and I was so angry. The truth is it was Marlon who came up with the idea. 'That scene wasn't in the original script. Then she hated me for all of her life.' After the film premiered, Schneider went on to struggle with serious depression and drug addiction, and she spoke out about the vile backstory of the controversial scene in an interview with the Daily Mail in 2007: I didn't want Maria to act her humiliation or rage, I wanted her to feel. 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. 'I wanted her to react humiliated,' Bertolucci added before saying that he didn't 'regret' his and Brando's actions. To be clear, no actual sex took place, but that doesn't make Brando forcing himself on Schneider any less disgusting or OK. Although he said he felt awful 'in a way' for his treatment of Schneider, he rationalized it by saying that he 'wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress.'

'The sequence of the butter is an idea that I had with Marlon in the morning before shooting,' Bertulocci revealed while being interviewed at La CinГ©mathГЁque Francaise. In it, Bertolucci admits that he and the film's leading man, Marlon Brando, conspired to film the movie's infamous 'butter' rape scene - in which Brando's character uses a stick of butter to help him rape actress Maria Schneider's character - without the consent of the 19-year-old star. On Friday, a 2013 video of Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci discussing one of his 1972 films, The Last Tango in Paris, resurfaced and caused an uproar. This article has been updated with new information and contains a disturbing story of rape and assault.

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