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In the resurfaced interview, Bertolucci said of the butter scene: “It was in the script that he had to rape her in a way. It did not create such an outrage then, except in his native Italy, where headlines read “ Bertolucci Confesses the Violence of Maria Schneider” and “ Bertolucci Repents: I Misled Schneider.”
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Not the violence that she is subjected to in the scene, which was written in the screenplay.”īertolucci has been outspoken about the simulated sex scene over the years, and gave a series of interviews in 2013 around the release of his film Me and You, also apologizing to Schneider for leaving the details of the scene unknown to her.
“And that, as I learned many years later, offended Maria. The only novelty was the idea of the butter. That is false! Maria knew everything because she had read the script, where it was all described. “Somebody thought, and thinks, that Maria had not been informed about the violence on her. We wanted her spontaneous reaction to that improper use. “I specified, but perhaps I was not clear, that I decided with Marlon Brando not to inform Maria that we would have used butter. Several years ago at the Cinematheque Francaise, someone asked me for details on the famous butter scene.”
The wheelchair-bound director issued a statement in Italian on Monday, saying, “I would like, for the last time, to clear up a ridiculous misunderstanding that continues to generate press reports about Last Tango in Paris around the world.