

As a woman, I am horrified, disgusted and enraged by it.”Ĭhris Evans, an actor, said on Twitter: “I will never look at this film, Bertolucci or Brando the same way again. “As a director, I can barely fathom this. “Inexcusable,’’ Ava DuVernay, a filmmaker, said on Twitter. Several prominent figures in Hollywood responded on social media with anger toward Mr. Bertolucci’s comments did not receive widespread attention at the time, but rocketed into prominence over the weekend after they resurfaced in media reports about a Spanish nonprofit’s publicity campaign about violence against women.

Brando would use butter as a lubricant for the simulated sex because he “wanted Maria to feel, not to act, the rage and the humiliation.” Schneider wasn’t told ahead of time that Mr. In 2013, Bernardo Bertolucci, the director of the film, confirmed that Ms. In 2007, Maria Schneider said that she “ felt a little raped” during the filming of an infamous rape scene with Marlon Brando in the 1972 film “Last Tango in Paris,” and that the tears she cried on screen were real.
