release in 1973 Brando was nominated for best actor and Bertolucci for best director at the 1974 Academy Awards. Maria Schneider, the French actress whose sex scenes with Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris set a new standard for explicitness onscreen, died on Thursday in Paris. Last Tango in Paris (Italian: Ultimo tango a Parigi French: Le Dernier Tango à Paris) is a 1972 erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.The film stars Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider and Jean-Pierre Léaud, and portrays a recently widowed American who begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman. The erotic drama, originally rated X, is the tale of an American widower (Brando) who embarks on a sexual relationship with a young French woman (Schneider) whose name he doesn’t know. Some had the impression a rape occurred on camera others noted that the actress hadn't agreed to the traumatizing scene. … I was crying real tears.”Ĭelebs reacted with disbelief as the story spread after footage from Bertolucci’s interview was uploaded to YouTube on Nov. “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, but at the time, I didn’t know that. “I was so angry,” she said, specifying that the sex was simulated. Please wrap up this dark, sad, and spirit crushing movie. I kept thinking, this has to be the last scene. But if youre ever in a great mood and want to instantly become depressed, watch this film. News that the scene was a surprise came out well before Bertolucci’s interview: Schneider, who died in 2011 at age 58, told The Daily Mail in 2007 that the rape wasn’t in the script and she found out about it right before the cameras rolled. Yeah I waited many many years to finally watch Tango. Scene of violation of 'The last tango in Paris' was real: Bernardo Bertolucci. “I feel guilty,” the director added, but said he didn’t regret shooting the scene the way he did. The Last Exorcism Part II Opening Scene 2013 HD. “I wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress. “There was a baguette, there was butter and we looked at each other and, without saying anything, we knew what we wanted,” says Bertolucci, now 75, in footage filmed at La Cinematheque Francaise in Paris.
Video of a 2013 interview with the movie’s Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci has resurfaced, Yahoo reports, in which he acknowledges that he and the late Marlon Brando, in his late 40s at the time, thought up using a stick of butter to rape Jeanne, the character played by the movie’s 19-year-old star Maria Schneider, just prior to the shoot. That notorious rape scene in 1972’s Last Tango in Paris wasn’t real, but it wasn’t consensual, either - and Hollywood is reacting with belated outrage.
Watch Video: 'Last Tango in Paris' director admits rape scene wasn't consensual