The rape story gained traction days ago, when Yahoo ran the headline: “Bertolucci admits infamous Last Tango ‘butter’ rape scene was non-consensual.” A Variety headline Saturday read, “‘Last Tango in Paris’ Rape Scene Was Not Consensual, Director Bernardo Bertolucci Admits.”Īlso Read: Evan Rachel Wood Is 'Taking a Break From Social Media' After Rape TweetĪ Time tweet Saturday went further: “Last Tango in Paris’ director admits controversial butter rape scene was really rape.” And others - including actress Jessica Chastain - took the stories to mean an actual rape took place. In fact, she said she felt “a little bit raped” by her director and co-star because they manipulated and coerced her into doing the scene, which was not in the original script. The 1972 film “Last Tango in Paris” was pilloried across the internet this weekend over the belief that director Bernardo Bertolucci had admitted that a rape scene between stars Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider was an actual rape.īut in an interview a decade ago, Schneider herself said that no sex of any kind took place during the scene, in which then-48-year-old Brando’s character uses butter to have anal sex with the 19-year-old Schneider.
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