“I did not like … the image full of innuendo, naughty, that people had of me after Last Tango,” she once said. Schneider became a sex symbol, which she said “turned me a little crazy”. Schneider became an unwilling sex symbol after her debut at the age of 19. It was banned from cinemas and Bertolucci was tried for obscenity in Italy. Photo: Getty ‘I had a bit of a breakdown’Īt the time of its release, Last Tango in Paris received a positive critical reception but was met with public outrage. Schneider called Bertolucci “fat and sweaty and very manipulative” and she had “a bad feeling” before accepting the role. “Marlon said to me: ‘Maria, don’t worry, it’s just a movie’, but during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn’t real, I was crying real tears.” “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,” she said. However, Schneider revealed to the Daily Mail in 2007 she felt “a little bit raped” by Brando and Bertolucci. “Somebody thought, and thinks, that Maria had not been informed about the violence on her. Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris. “I specified, but perhaps I was not clear, that I decided with Marlon Brando not to inform Maria that we would have used butter,” he said. “I had been, in a way, horrible to Maria because I didn’t tell her what was going on … I didn’t want Maria to act … I wanted Maria to feel the rage and humiliation.”īertolucci clarified his comments on Monday, calling the backlash a “ridiculous misunderstanding”. There was a baguette, there was butter and we looked at each other and, without saying anything, we knew what we wanted,” Bertolucci said. “We were having, with Marlon, breakfast on the floor of the flat where I was shooting. Related Coverage Michael Keaton on Oscars, Trump and unpopularity Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: Revolutionary or unwatchable? I feel rage īertolucci said he and Brando conspired to surprise the then-teenager by adding the butter without her knowledge. I will never look at this film, Bertolucci or Brando the same way again.
In the clip, Bertolucci admits he didn’t tell Schneider the details of a particularly graphic scene involving a stick of butter. A 2013 interview with the film’s director, Bernardo Bertolucci, resurfaced on Sunday.
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