“I didn’t tell her what was going on because I wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress,” he said. Brando thought of including butter in the scene on the morning it was filmed and purposely kept Ms. Schneider was not nominated but emerged as a sex symbol she had several leading roles in the 1970s, but her acting career declined later in the decade, while her personal life was marred by drug abuse and at least one suicide attempt. Bertolucci, 76, was nominated for Best Director.
Brando, who died at 80 in 2004, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, while Mr.
Brando pins her to the floor and appears to force anal intercourse remains one of the enduring images from the film, and was part of the reason The Motion Picture Association of America gave the film an X rating. Brando, included explicit sex scenes that shocked audiences. Schneider was an unknown 19-year-old French actress paid $4,000 for her part in “Last Tango,” in which her torrid affair with an American businessman, played by a 48-year-old Mr. As a woman, I am horrified, disgusted and enraged by it.”Ĭhris Evans, an actor, said on Twitter: “I will never look at this film, Bertolucci or Brando the same way again. “As a director, I can barely fathom this. “Inexcusable,’’ Ava DuVernay, a filmmaker, said on Twitter. Several prominent figures in Hollywood responded on social media with anger toward Mr. Bertolucci’s comments did not receive widespread attention at the time, but rocketed into prominence over the weekend after they resurfaced in media reports about a Spanish nonprofit’s publicity campaign about violence against women. Brando would use butter as a lubricant for the simulated sex because he “wanted Maria to feel, not to act, the rage and the humiliation.” Schneider wasn’t told ahead of time that Mr. In 2013, Bernardo Bertolucci, the director of the film, confirmed that Ms. In 2007, Maria Schneider said that she “ felt a little raped” during the filming of an infamous rape scene with Marlon Brando in the 1972 film “Last Tango in Paris,” and that the tears she cried on screen were real.