Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director behind films including Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Conformist, has died aged 77.
Schneider, meanwhile, said years after making the film that she felt “a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci”.
Following reports of his death in Italian media, his publicist, Flavia Schiavi, confirmed he died at 7am on Monday 26 November, from cancer.
His friendship with Pier-Paolo Pasolini, then a novelist and poet, led to the then-20-year-old Bertolucci being hired as Pasolini’s assistant on his 1961 debut Accattone.