Bernardo Bertolucci Admits Last Tango in Paris Butter-Rape Scene Was Nonconsensual
One of the most infamous rape scenes in film history comes from the 1972 erotic-drama Last Tango in Paris, in which Marlon Brando’s character uses a stick of butter to anally rape another character played by Maria Schneider. Prior to her death, Schneider had spoken out about how she felt “humiliated” and “a little raped” while filming the scene — which wasn’t in the original script — despite acknowledging what Brando “was doing wasn’t real.
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