So she was pressured to do the butter scene though not held at gunpoint?

They planned it without telling her and then told her apperantly before the scene. She says she was forced or pressurized to do the scene. But that is not rape. Unless they held her hostage or something which she has not said. She was an adult and this scenario also doesn't come under being influenced by a person of power aka professor/student relationship.

Forcing and being aggressive or feeling threatened are different. The actress clearly said she didn't know she could reject the scene (?!?!) and that her lawyer and agent should have saved her.

And I did see the entire video of Bertolucci's interview. Along with the interview you have to take into account what the actress said. Like I stated originally, they came up with the idea and told her about it a few minutes before filming. They pressured/forced her to do it. But that is not threatening behavior. Only if the actress said that she felt threatened then can it be considered rape. They took advantage of her nativity and yes 19 is young but legally it is adulthood so you have to start making adult decisions even if you've been coddled all your life.

This is getting so ridiculous. Brando did not rape anybody. He manipulated and humiliated somebody, you know... for art, in the heat of shooting a very psychologically violent sex drama. That's bad. That's disgusting actually. But that doesn't constitute rape. It's bad behavior, sure, but let's stop throwing the word "rape" at any case of humiliation because THAT is an insult to real rape victims!

What happened is that they manipulated her by lying about the nature of the sex scene they were shooting. Was that a pig move? Totally. Ungentlemanly, not professional, whatever... Sure! But RAPE? Does anybody really think that on a big production like Last Tango in Paris an actress, the second star of the film and a rising star for years, was raped in front of the cameras, in front of the whole crew, the producers even? That did not happen. What happened is that before shooting, Brando and Bertolucci came up with an idea for the scene, told her about it just moments before the cameras started rolling (she said so herself...) She probably didn't say anything because she did not dare disagree with Bertolucci. Let's not forget that the nature of the scene, that she agreed to shoot, was already a violent sequence involving full frontal nudity and sodomy. They added the idea of the butter. So she was coerced into doing something she didn't want to do, probably felt dirty afterwards. She had remorse for agreeing to do it in the first place. She felt enraged and rightly so. But she wasn't RAPED, she was humiliated. Small consolation, I know, right?...

But I remember seeing old interviews of Maria Schneider in the 80s or 90s where she actually praised Brando and I believe that they stayed friends long after the release of the film. So people should really gather all the facts and think before they paint Brando as some kind of monster or sexual predator. He did something bad in the heat of shooting a sex scene, probably regretted it but he did not RAPE Maria Schneider.

And I'm pretty sure that if she were alive today, she would correct that and put an end to all this nonsense...