A 2013 interview with famed film director Bernardo Bertolucci has just resurfaced and is causing widespread outrage. In it, Bertolucci claims that, for the sake of emotional and artistic authenticity in his movie Last Tango in Paris, he and actor Marlon Brando conspired to surprise Brando’s young co-star Maria Schneider in a rape scene which left her so angry and humiliated that she never spoke to Bertolucci again after the project. In the controversial X-rated erotic drama from 1972, Brando played an American widower engaged in an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian played by Schneider. In the infamous scene in question, Brando, forty-eight at the time, rapes her after using a stick of butter as lubricant. “The sequence of the butter is an idea that...
