After the scene, Marlon didn’t console me or apologise. I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci.
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 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. The truth is it was Marlon who came up with the idea… They only told me about it before we had to film the scene and I was so angry. In a 2007 conversation with the Daily Mail, around the time of the film’s 35th anniversary, Schneider commented on how “that scene wasn’t in the original script. Schneider, who passed away in 2011, had previously discussed the violative nature of the scene publicly. I wanted Maria to feel, not act, that rage and humiliation.
When asked by the interviewer if he regretted the scene, Bertolucci replied, “No, but I feel guilty, but I do not regret … you know, to make movies sometimes, to obtain something, I think that you have to be completely free … I didn’t want Maria to act her humiliation, her rage.
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