Hollywood names like Jessica Chastain and Ava DuVernay have spoken out against the director's actions. He said that the scene had actually been included in the script. Credit: Screenshot He said that he and Schneider, who died of cancer in 2011, never. But in his statement, Bertolucci said that any idea that Schneider didn't know about what would happen in the scene, apart from Paul's use of butter, was false. Last Tango in Paris rape scene using a baguette and butter was never consented to by actress Maria Schneider. In a 2007 Daily Mail interview, Schneider said that the "scene wasn't in the original script" and that she "felt a little raped" by Brando and Bertolucci. In the scene, Marlon Brando's character, Paul, rapes Jeanne, played by Maria Schneider. Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci admitted in a recently surfaced video that star Maria Schneider never consented to a rape scene he and co st. I specified, but perhaps was not clear, that I decided with Marlon Brando not to inform Maria that we would butter." Several years ago, at the Cinematheque Francaise, someone asked me for details on the famous butter scene. The sequence of the butter is an idea that I had with Marlon in the morning before shooting it. Bernardo Bertolucci, the director of Last Tango in Paris, has issued a statement addressing the outcry directed at his recently resurfaced 2013 comments about the film's rape scene.Īccording to Deadline, Bertolucci's statement said: "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. That Famous Rape Scene In Last Tango In Paris Was In Fact Not Consensual, Director Says.