"I took pills to try and commit suicide but I survived because God decided it wasn't the time for me to go. "I didn't enjoy being famous at all and drugs were my escape," she said. It was the '70s and at that time, it was all going on. This Screen Rant article described the latest controversy: 'One of the most notorious scenes in cinema history, the Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider butter rape scene in Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, is making headlines once again, 44 years after the film's debut. I got into drugs - pot and then cocaine, LSD and heroin - it was like an escape from reality. Schneider told the Daily Mail in 2007 that the attention, "made me go mad.
Last Tango in Paris helped catapult the unknown French actress to worldwide fame, but also sent her down a path of destructive behavior. Schneider would say that the rape was simulated, but that she didn't know about the brutal scene until just before it was shot as it wasn't originally in the script. Maria Schneider had been open about the trauma she felt from the Last Tango in Paris rape scene, saying before her 2011 death from cancer that she felt as if she had actually been raped. "I think she hated me and also Marlon because we didn't tell her," he said.
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"The sequence of the butter is an idea that I had with Marlon in the morning before shooting," Bertulocci said, adding that he "wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress."īertolucci said it was "horrible" that he and Brando did not tell Schneider, and said the actress broke off contact after filming of the movie was completed. In the video, Bertolucci explained that he and Marlon Brando came up with the idea that morning to incorporate a stick of butter, but purposely did not tell Maria Schneider so that her on-camera reaction would be genuine.
It was a brutal scene made even more disturbing by the visceral reaction of Schneider, and a newly surfaced interview with Bertolucci reveals that it was just as much a surprise for the actress as it was for her character, The Guardian reported. The scene depicted a 48-year-old Marlon Brando assaulting and anally raping Schneider's character with the aid of a stick of butter. He admitted that the graphic rape was inserted into the script without the knowledge of 19-year-old actor Maria Schneider and then filmed without her consent. Those who watched Last Tango in Paris will remember the infamous "butter rape scene," and now an interview with director Bernardo Bertolucci has drawn even more controversy to the already divisive scene.