There has been a recent discovery of tape recorded conversations in which both Brando and Bertolucci admit that the rape of Schneider was done on the spur of the moment, onscreen, without the actress knowing beforehand. This Screen Rant article described the latest controversy: "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." Since the lost interview has surfaced the Hollywood community has been in an outcry in outrage over this staged assault.

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