Chris Evans, Jessica Chastain and more have spoken out about a recently resurfaced interview in which Bernardo Bertolucci admitted Maria Schneider wasn't made aware of details of the crucial scene prior to the day of shooting. 
 
 One of the most notorious scenes in cinema history, the Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider butter rape scene in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris, is making headlines once again, 44 years after the film's debut. 
 
 In a recently resurfaced video interview from 2013, Bertolucci confirms that Schneider, who died in 2011, did not know the details of the rape scene ahead of time, and that the graphic nature of the scene was improvised on set. 
 
 “We were having, with Marlon, breakfast on the floor of the flat where I was shooting. There was a baguette, there was butter and we looked at each other and, without saying anything, we knew what we wanted,” the director said then. “I had been, in a way, horrible to Maria because I didn’t tell her what was going on.” 
 
 Bertolucci said he felt guilty about how he treated Schneider, but does not regret the scene. 
 
 Nothing in the resurfaced video is news as the director has been very vocal about his filming of the scene and how it affected Maria Schneider in multiple interviews over the years, most recently during a press tour for his last film Me and You, during which the YouTube video interview was shot. 
 
 Bertolucci expressed roughly the same sentiment in a 2013 interview with The Telegraph: “No, I don’t feel guilty, but when she died I thought, God, I’m so sorry that I can’t apologize for what Marlon and I did with that scene and we decided not to tell her. Her sense of humiliation was very real, but I think what really offended her was that she didn’t feel she’d been allowed to prepare for the scene as an actress. But I wanted her reaction as a person, not as an actress.” 
 
 Celebrities voiced their disgust at the resurfaced news on Twitter. Jessica Chastain said of the revelations, “The director planned her attack. I feel sick," while Chris Evans tweeted that Bertolucci and Brando "should be in jail.” Ava DuVernay wrote, "As a woman, I am horrified, disgusted and enraged by it." 
 
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 To all the people that love this film- you're watching a 19yr old get raped by a 48yr old man. The director planned her attack. I feel sick. https://t.co/qVDom2gYf6 — Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) December 3, 2016 
 
 I second that. This is heartbreaking and outrageous. The 2 of them are very sick individuals to think that was ok. https://t.co/Ft4SArjcgd — #EvanRachelWould (@evanrachelwood) December 3, 2016 
 
 Inexcusable. As a director, I can barely fathom this. As a woman, I am horrified, disgusted and enraged by it. https://t.co/voGRhafy9K — Ava DuVernay (@ava) December 4, 2016 
 
 Wow. I will never look at this film, Bertolucci or Brando the same way again. This is beyond disgusting. I feel rage https://t.co/uvaLogvv7I — Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) December 3, 2016 
 
 @AnnaKendrick47 @colliderfrosty had no idea. Woulda felt rage then too. They should be in jail. — Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) December 3, 2016 
 
 Anna Kendrick noted that Schneider's lack of knowledge of the scene prior to the shooting day was nothing new. “Ms Schneider stated this several years ago. I used to get eye-rolls when I brought it up to people (aka dudes),” she tweeted. 
 
 "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,” Schneider said in a 2007 Daily Mail interview. 
 
 She continued, "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 very sad because I was treated like a sex symbol — I wanted to be recognized as an actress and the whole scandal and aftermath of the film turned me a little crazy and I had a breakdown." 
 
 Schneider added, "I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci.” 
 
 The actress claims that the late Brando also felt taken advantage of by Bertolucci, so it was easy to imagine how the experience affected the young actress. “Marlon said he felt raped and manipulated by it and he was 48,” she said. “And he was Marlon Brando!" 
 
 It’s also well known that Schneider, who struggled with drug addiction and mental health issues, has blamed the infamous film for the downhill trajectory of her life. She went on to star in renowned films including Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger, but said she was unable to get past the notoriety that came with starring in Bertolucci’s film. 
 
 Last Tango in Paris was critically lauded but surrounded in public controversy. Bertolucci was put on trial for obscenity in Italy after the release of the movie. Copies of the film were destroyed at the time and Bertolucci was served with a four-month suspended sentence and denied his civil (including voting) rights for five years. Last Tango earned Brando a best actor Oscar nomination and Bertolucci a best director nomination. ||||| Bernardo Bertolucci sparks outrage after 2013 interview surfaces in which he says he ‘wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress’ 
 
 Comments by the director of the film Last Tango in Paris, Bernardo Bertolucci, that he conspired with Marlon Brando to film a graphic rape scene without the consent of 19-year-old actor Maria Schneider have prompted outrage in Hollywood. 
 
 
 
 Speaking in a video from 2013 that surfaced recently, Bertolucci said he and Brando came up with the idea to shoot the infamous scene depicting assault, in which Brando’s character uses a stick of butter to anally rape his lover, played by Schneider. 
 
 “The sequence of the butter is an idea that I had with Marlon in the morning before shooting,” Bertulocci said at an event held at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2013. He said he “wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress”. 
 
 
 
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 “I think she hated me and also Marlon because we didn’t tell her that there was that detail of the butter used as lubricant,” he said. 
 
 Although he admitted that not telling her the plan was “horrible”, Bertolucci said he didn’t regret how he decided to direct the scene. 
 
 Last Tango in Paris – which was made in 1972 and tells the story of a man who enters into an anonymous affair after his wife takes her own life – shocked audiences when it was released due to its graphic depictions of sex and rape and is still considered to be controversial. At the time of filming Brando was 48, while Schneider was 19. 
 
 Schneider, who went on to have serious drug addiction problems and depression, said in 2007 that she felt humiliated and “a little raped”. During the interview Schneider confirmed the scene was simulated and there was no real sex. 
 
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 She said she was told about the contents of the scene shortly before the shoot and that it wasn’t in the original script. 
 
 “I was so angry, she said. “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,” she told the Daily Mail. 
 
 “Marlon said to me: ‘Maria, don’t worry, it’s just a movie’.” 
 
 “After the scene, Marlon didn’t console me or apologise. Thankfully, there was just one take,” she said. Schneider died from cancer in 2011. 
 
 Bertolucci’s comments prompted outrage on social media, with celebrities among those calling for the director to be stripped of his awards or to be prosecuted. 
 
 Jessica Chastain said the comments made her feel sick. 
 
 Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) To all the people that love this film- you're watching a 19yr old get raped by a 48yr old man. The director planned her attack. I feel sick. https://t.co/qVDom2gYf6 
 
 
 
 Evan Rachel Wood retweeted Chastain’s comments, adding, “I second that. This is heartbreaking and outrageous. The 2 of them are very sick individuals to think that was ok.” 
 
 Chris Evans wrote: “Wow. I will never look at this film, Bertolucci or Brando the same way again. This is beyond disgusting. I feel rage,” which prompted a response from Anna Kendrick. 
 
 “Ms Schneider stated this several years ago. I used to get eye-rolls when I brought it up to people (aka dudes),” Kendrick tweeted. Evans replied that the men should be in jail. 
 
 Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) @AnnaKendrick47 @colliderfrosty had no idea. Woulda felt rage then too. They should be in jail. 
 
 Australian Associated Press contributed to this report ||||| CLOSE A newly resurfaced video of acclaimed Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci has sparked outrage regarding the controversial rape scene in 'The Last Tango in Paris.' Time 
 
 Marlon Brando (right) and Maria Schneider in 'The Last Tango in Paris.' (Photo: AP) 
 
 That notorious rape scene in 1972’s Last Tango in Paris wasn’t real, but it wasn’t consensual, either — and Hollywood is reacting with belated outrage. 
 
 Video of a 2013 interview with the movie’s Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci has resurfaced, Yahoo reports, in which he acknowledges that he and the late Marlon Brando, in his late 40s at the time, thought up using a stick of butter to rape Jeanne, the character played by the movie’s 19-year-old star Maria Schneider, just prior to the shoot. 
 
 “There was a baguette, there was butter and we looked at each other and, without saying anything, we knew what we wanted,” says Bertolucci, now 75, in footage filmed at La Cinematheque Francaise in Paris. “I wanted her reaction as a girl, not as an actress. I wanted her to react humiliated.” 
 
 “I feel guilty,” the director added, but said he didn’t regret shooting the scene the way he did. 
 
 News that the scene was a surprise came out well before Bertolucci’s interview: Schneider, who died in 2011 at age 58, told The Daily Mail in 2007 that the rape wasn’t in the script and she found out about it right before the cameras rolled. 
 
 “I was so angry,” she said, specifying that the sex was simulated. “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. … I was crying real tears.” 
 
 Celebs reacted with disbelief as the story spread after footage from Bertolucci’s interview was uploaded to YouTube on Nov. 23. Some had the impression a rape occurred on camera; others noted that the actress hadn't agreed to the traumatizing scene. 
 
 To all the people that love this film- you're watching a 19yr old get raped by a 48yr old man. The director planned her attack. I feel sick. https://t.co/qVDom2gYf6 — Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) December 3, 2016 
 
 I second that. This is heartbreaking and outrageous. The 2 of them are very sick individuals to think that was ok. https://t.co/Ft4SArjcgd — #EvanRachelWould (@evanrachelwood) December 3, 2016 
 
 All copies of this film should be destroyed immediately. It contains an actual rape and sexual assault. #disgusting#disgracehttps://t.co/pKKdSlBDbU — Jenna Fischer (@jennafischer) December 3, 2016 
 
 You're a director & want to film real pain? Real terror? Real shame? Do documentaries. Don't put your actors thru surprise hell w/o consent. — Zelda Williams (@zeldawilliams) December 4, 2016 
 
 Were this a rape scene in a script when an actor was hired, or one that was planned & could be practiced, that'd be a very different story. — Zelda Williams (@zeldawilliams) December 4, 2016 
 
 Wow. I will never look at this film, Bertolucci or Brando the same way again. This is beyond disgusting. I feel rage https://t.co/uvaLogvv7I — Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) December 3, 2016 
 
 Maria Schneider, who checked herself into the psych ward for a few days so she could be with her committed lover Joan Townsend. Even there they were harassed and photographed. RIP beautiful lady. I'm so sorry that art became pain rather than release for you. (Image courtesy of Old Loves Tumblr) A photo posted by Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) on Dec 4, 2016 at 12:55am PST 
 
 The erotic drama, originally rated X, is the tale of an American widower (Brando) who embarks on a sexual relationship with a young French woman (Schneider) whose name he doesn’t know. Last Tango had its U.S. release in 1973; Brando was nominated for best actor and Bertolucci for best director at the 1974 Academy Awards. 
 
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– Last Tango in Paris was released in 1972 to critical acclaim, but people are now "sick" and "enraged" after a 2013 interview resurfaced in which director Bernardo Bertolucci admitted the infamous rape scene in it was a little too real. In the interview, which was uploaded to YouTube on Nov. 23, Bertolucci said he and Marlon Brando, then 48, decided a stick of butter should be used as lubricant to rape the character of Jeanne without telling actress Maria Schneider, who was then 19. "I had been, in a way, horrible to Maria because I didn't tell her what was going on," Bertolucci said, per the Hollywood Reporter, noting he wanted Schneider to react "as a girl, not as an actress. I wanted her to react humiliated." Bertolucci also made similar comments to the Telegraph in 2013, only to then be described as "charming." This isn't exactly breaking news: Schneider, who died in 2011, recounted the scene to the Daily Mail in 2007, saying "even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears" and felt "a little raped both by Marlon and Bertolucci." Brando and Bertolucci were later nominated for best actor and best director Oscars, respectively, for their work on the film, reports USA Today. "I feel sick," Jessica Chastain tweeted Saturday, per the Guardian. Evan Rachel Wood said the admission was "heartbreaking and outrageous," while Chris Evans said Bertolucci and Brando "should be in jail." Anna Kendrick said she "used to get eye-rolls" when she mentioned Bertolucci's comments to people, particularly men. Added Ava DuVernay, "As a director, I can barely fathom this. As a woman, I am horrified, disgusted and enraged by it."