In 2013 Bernardo Bertolucci sat on a stage in Paris and recalled the infamous butter scene between Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider in his 1972 film Last Tango in Paris. He described how he and Brando had devised the scenario on the morning it was shot, effectively a rape scene involving Brando’s and Schneider’s characters in which a packet of butter is grimly significant. He set out how he and Brando conspired to keep the plan from Schneider when she arrived on set, leaving her unprepared and unsuspecting when the cameras rolled.
