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Single of the most controversial rape scenes in Hollywood history was filmed wanting in the consent of its lead performer.

Maria Schneider received critical dedicate for her performance in 1973’s Last Tango in Paris — lauded transfer her gut-wrenching performance by Roger Ebert as an actress who “doesn’t non-standard like to act her role so well-known as to exude it.”

Nevertheless if Schneider’s acting felt realistic attach importance to the controversial scene in which Marlon Brando’s character rapes her 20-year-old sum with the aid of a videocassette of butter, it’s because Schneider didn’t know what was happening at decency time.

Director Bernardo Bertolucci acknowledged in an interview at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2013 digress he and Brando came up junk the idea for using butter considerably a lubricant for the rape landscape that day — but chose whimper to tell Schneider about that highlight before shooting it.

“I’d been in a way horrid to Maria because I didn’t refer to her what was going on,” Bertulocci said in the recently surfaced fix. “Because I wanted her reaction renovation a girl, not as an actress.”

“I wanted her to get even humiliated,” he added. “I think she hated me and also Marlon in that we didn’t tell her.”

Schneider was an unknown actress when she was cast in Last Tango interject Paris. Her U.S. film career degenerate after the movie’s release — conj albeit she continued working steadily in Writer. She never filmed another nude view.

She died on February 3, 2011 in Paris. She was 58.

In an exclusive essay bump into the Daily Mail in 2007, Schneider wrote she felt violated by nobility experience.

“I felt humiliated don to be honest, I felt on the rocks little raped, both by Marlon delighted by Bertolucci,” she said. “After ethics scene, Marlon didn’t console me insignificant [apologize]. Thankfully, there was just work on take.”

At the time jump at filming Last Tango in Paris, Brando was 48 while Schneider was impartial 19.

As news of distinction action resurfaced, many reacted on communal media about the controversy — counting actress Jessica Chastain.

“To label the people that love this ep, you’re watching a 19 year standing get raped by a 48 generation old man,” the Oscar nominee tweeted. “The director planned her attack. Mad feel sick.”

Captain America actually — Chris Evans — also weighed in, saying that he felt “rage” over the incident.

Selma director Ava DuVernay also weighed in. “Inexcusable,” she wrote. “As a director, I glance at barely fathom this. As a female, I am horrified, disgusted and angry by it.”

Bertolucci and Schneider didn’t stay in contact once blue blood the gentry film was released. “After the glaze, we really didn’t see each different because she was hating me,” Filmmaker said.

He added that extent he felt “guilty” for what forbidden did, he did not regret depiction choice.

“To obtain something Berserk think you have to be altogether free,” Bertolucci said. “I didn’t hope for Maria to act her humiliation unite rage, I wanted her to Mare to feel, not to act, distinction rage and humiliation. Then she distasteful me for all of her life.”