Ten years ago, Bertolucci had what he was told would be routine back surgery on a herniated disc. Marlon later said that he felt manipulated, and he was Marlon Brando, so you can imagine how I felt. People thought I was just like my character and I would make up stories for the press, but that wasn't me." Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bertolucci speaks about the infamous scene depicting assault 
 
 “I think she hated me and also Marlon because we didn’t tell her that there was that detail of the butter used as lubricant,” he said. “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,” she told the Daily Mail. Bertolucci expressed roughly the same sentiment in a 2013 interview with The Telegraph: “No, I don’t feel guilty, but when she died I thought, God, I’m so sorry that I can’t apologize for what Marlon and I did with that scene and we decided not to tell her. She continued, "Marlon said to me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie,' but during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears. But I wanted her reaction as a person, not as an actress.” 
 
 Off the set, Bertolucci has a rather courtly, old-fashioned air – he’s charming, considerate, apparently unflappable. He said, ‘Where are you?’ I told him I was in LA and he said, ‘Come round. "Marlon said to me: 'You look just like Cheyenne (his daughter, who subsequently committed suicide in 1995) with your baby face.'  Bernardo Bertolucci sparks outrage after 2013 interview surfaces in which he says he ‘wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress’ 
 
 Comments by the director of the film Last Tango in Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci, that he conspired with Marlon Brando to film a graphic rape scene without the consent of 19-year-old actor Maria Schneider have prompted outrage in Hollywood. I went and woke up my father who was having a nap and told him there was a man outside who looked like a thief.” The man, it turned out, was the film director Pier Paolo Pasolini. It was Brigitte Bardot, a former co-star of her father's, who came to her rescue. Copies of the film were destroyed at the time and Bertolucci was served with a four-month suspended sentence and denied his civil (including voting) rights for five years. "I didn't enjoy being famous at all and drugs were my escape. "I felt very sad because I was treated like a sex symbol - I wanted to be recognised as an actress and the whole scandal and aftermath of the film turned me a little crazy and I had a breakdown. Last Tango had its U.S. release in 1973; Brando was nominated for best actor and Bertolucci for best director at the 1974 Academy Awards. "Now, though, I can look at the film and like my work in it."
– Last Tango in Paris was released in 1972 to critical acclaim, but people are now "sick" and "enraged" after a 2013 interview resurfaced in which director Bernardo Bertolucci admitted the infamous rape scene in it was a little too real. In the interview, which was uploaded to YouTube on Nov. 23, Bertolucci said he and Marlon Brando, then 48, decided a stick of butter should be used as lubricant to rape the character of Jeanne without telling actress Maria Schneider, who was then 19. "I had been, in a way, horrible to Maria because I didn't tell her what was going on," Bertolucci said, per the Hollywood Reporter, noting he wanted Schneider to react "as a girl, not as an actress. I wanted her to react humiliated." Bertolucci also made similar comments to the Telegraph in 2013, only to then be described as "charming." This isn't exactly breaking news: Schneider, who died in 2011, recounted the scene to the Daily Mail in 2007, saying "even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears" and felt "a little raped both by Marlon and Bertolucci." Brando and Bertolucci were later nominated for best actor and best director Oscars, respectively, for their work on the film, reports USA Today. "I feel sick," Jessica Chastain tweeted Saturday, per the Guardian. Evan Rachel Wood said the admission was "heartbreaking and outrageous," while Chris Evans said Bertolucci and Brando "should be in jail." Anna Kendrick said she "used to get eye-rolls" when she mentioned Bertolucci's comments to people, particularly men. Added Ava DuVernay, "As a director, I can barely fathom this. As a woman, I am horrified, disgusted and enraged by it."