Editing Last Tango in Paris (section)

=== Rape scene ===
The film contains a scene in which Paul [[anal rape|anally rapes]] Jeanne using butter as a lubricant. While the rape is [[Simulation|simulated]], Schneider has said the scene still had a tremendously negative effect on her. In a 2006 interview, Schneider said that the use of butter was not in the script and that "when they told me, I had a burst of anger. Woo! I threw everything. And nobody can force someone to do something not in the script. But I didn't know that. I was too young."<ref name="Downhill Ride">{{cite web |url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/film/downhill-ride-for-maria-after-her-tango-with-brando/2006/06/21/1150845244689.html |title=Downhill ride for Maria after her tango with Brando |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]   |date=22 June 2006 |access-date=4 December 2016}}</ref> In 2007, Schneider recounted feelings of sexual humiliation pertaining to the rape scene:

{{blockquote|They only told me about it before we had to film the scene and I was so angry. 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. 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. I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. After the scene, Marlon didn't console me or apologize. Thankfully, there was just one take.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/11/26/story-behind-filmmaker-bernardo-bertoluccis-last-public-controversy/|title=The story behind filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci's last public controversy|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref>|author=|title=|source=}}

In 2011, Bertolucci denied that he "stole her youth" (she was 19 at the time of filming), and commented, "The girl wasn't mature enough to understand what was going on."<ref>{{cite web |first=Steve |last=Dollar |url=http://daily.greencine.com/archives/007965.html |title=Interview: Bernardo Bertolucci |website=Green Cine |date=2 January 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105081412/http://daily.greencine.com/archives/007965.html |archive-date=5 January 2011}}</ref> She claimed that Brando and Bertolucci "made a fortune" from the film while she made very little money.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/in-memoriam-maria-schneider|title=In Memoriam: Maria Schneider|magazine=The New Yorker|date=February 3, 2011|language=en|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref>

Schneider died in 2011. In February 2013, Bertolucci spoke about the film's effect on Schneider in an interview on the Dutch television show ''[[College Tour]]'', saying that although the rape scene was in the script, the detail of using butter as a lubricant was improvised the day of shooting and Schneider did not know about the use of the butter beforehand. Bertolucci said that "I feel guilty, but I don't regret it."<ref>[https://www.ntr.nl/collegetour/page/detail/790329 "Bernardo Bertolucci"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220150719/http://collegetour.ntr.nl/page/detail/790329 |date=20 December 2016 }}, ''Dutch College Tour'', NTR, 2 February 2013,</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMl4xCGcdfA  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/RMl4xCGcdfA| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Bertolucci over Maria Schneider |publisher=College Tour |date=5 February 2013 |access-date=3 December 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In September 2013, Bertolucci spoke again about the scene at a retrospective at the [[Cinémathèque Française]], claiming that the scene was in the script but the use of butter was not. Bertolucci said that he and Brando "decided not to say anything to Maria to get a more realistic response".<ref name="ansa">{{cite web |url=https://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/spettacolo/2013/09/17/Bertolucci-confessione-shock_9312378.html |title=Bertolucci, confessione shock su Ultimo tango |work=ANSA |language=it |date=17 September 2013 |access-date=4 December 2016}}</ref>

In November 2016, a slightly different version of the 2013 ''College Tour'' interview was uploaded to [[YouTube]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=021jNOEVytQ  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/021jNOEVytQ| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=Bertolucci sobre Maria Schneider / Bertolucci admits rape scene was non-consensual |date=23 November 2016 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> by the Spanish non-profit ''El Mundo de Alycia'' on the [[International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women]],<ref name="izadi">{{cite news |first=Elahe |last=Izadi |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/12/05/why-the-last-tango-in-paris-rape-scene-is-generating-such-an-outcry-now/ |title=Why the 'Last Tango in Paris' rape scene is generating such an outcry now |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]   |date=5 December 2016 |access-date=5 December 2016}}</ref> accompanied by a statement concluding that the scene "abused [Schneider] psychologically and, who knows if also, physically..."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://elmundodealycia.org/bertolucci-confiesa-la-violacion-de-maria-schneider/ |title=Bertolucci confiesa la violación de Maria Schneider |work=El Mundo de Alycia |language=es |date=25 November 2016 |access-date=5 December 2016}}</ref> This gained attention when ''[[Yahoo! Movies]]'' writer Tom Butler wrote an article about it,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/bertolucci-admits-infamous-last-tango-butter-rape-scene-was-non-consensual-162300811.html |last=Butler |first=Tim |title=Bertolucci admits infamous Last Tango 'butter' rape scene was non-consensual |work=Yahoo Movies |date=30 November 2016 |access-date=4 December 2016}}</ref> prompting several celebrities to condemn the film and Bertolucci,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2016/12/last-tango-in-paris-maria-schneider-rape-scene-marlon-brando-bernardo-bertolucci-1201864017/ |last=Lincoln |first=Ross A. |title=Hollywood Reacts With Disgust At 'Last Tango' Rape Scene Revelations |work=Deadline |date=3 December 2016 |access-date=3 December 2016}}</ref> and a number of newspapers picked up on the story, reporting that Bertolucci had confessed to Schneider being raped on set, prompting Bertolucci to release a statement, clarifying that a simulation and not an actual intercourse took place.<ref>{{cite web |first=Nick |last=Vivarelli |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/global/bernardo-bertolucci-responds-to-last-tango-in-paris-backlash-1201933605/ |title=Bernardo Bertolucci Responds to 'Last Tango in Paris' Backlash Over Rape Scene |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]  |date=5 December 2016 |access-date=5 December 2016}}</ref><ref name="izadi" />

Bertolucci also shot a scene which showed Brando's genitals, but in 1973 explained, "I had so identified myself with Brando that I cut it out of shame for myself. To show him naked would have been like showing me naked."<ref name="The Hottest Movie">{{cite magazine |first=Charles |last=Michener |title=Tango: The Hottest Movie |magazine=[[Newsweek]]  |location=New York City |date=12 February 1973}}</ref> Schneider declared in an interview that "Marlon said he felt raped and manipulated by it and he was 48. And he was Marlon Brando!"<ref name="The Hottest Movie"/> Like Schneider, Brando confirmed that the sex was simulated.<ref name=izadi/> Brando refused to speak to Bertolucci for 15 years after the production was completed. Bertolucci said:

{{blockquote|I was thinking that it was like a dialogue where he was really answering my questions in a way. When at the end of the movie, when he saw it, I discovered that he realized what we were doing, that he was delivering so much of his own experience. And he was very upset with me, and I told him, "Listen, you are a grown-up. Older than me. Didn't you realize what you were doing?" And he didn't talk to me for years.<ref>{{cite web |first=Brad |last=Balfour |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-balfour/legendary-oscar-winning-b_b_803322.html |title=Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci's Career Celebrated at MoMA |website=[[The Huffington Post]]  |date=January 2, 2011 |access-date=July 29, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|first=Richard|last=Brody|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/revisiting-bernardo-bertoluccis-artistic-ambitions-and-abuses-in-last-tango-in-paris|title=Revisiting Bernardo Bertolucci's Artistic Ambitions, and Abuses, in "Last Tango in Paris"|date=30 November 2018|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref>}}