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Brando: What a class guy . . .

Posted by Billy Wonka on December 4, 2016 at 13:38:13:
'Last Tango in Paris' rape scene was not
consensual, director Bernardo Bertolucci
admits

"Last Tango in Paris" director Bernardo Bertolucci confessed that he and Marlon Brando conspired against actress Maria Schneider during a rape scene in which the actor used a stick of butter as lubricant. The director addressed the non-consensual rape scene in a recently resurfaced interview from 2013.

According to Bertolucci, he and Brando agreed not to tell Schneider what would happen to her because he wanted her reaction "as a girl, not as an actress." He said that he and Schneider, who died in 2011, never saw one another after the film because she hated him.

In the interview, Bertolucci recounts the origin of the rape scene between Brando, who was 48 at the time, and Schneider who was 19.
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"I didn't want Maria to act her humiliation, her rage," he said. "I wanted Maria to feel, not to act, the rage and humiliation. Then she hated me for her whole life."

Before her death, Schneider had spoke out about the scene including in an interview with the Daily Mail in which she said, "I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. After the scene, Marlon didn't console me or apologize. Thankfully, there was just one take."

I guess consoling was something a Godfather does.