French actress Maria Schneider was just a teenager when she was forced to perform a brutal and unscripted rape scene with a man almost three decades her senior - sending her life down a dark path.At just 19-years-old, Schneider starred alongside a 48-year-old Marlon Brando in Last Tango in Paris - a film that would go on to spark controversy and outcry from critics and viewers across the globe - and which led to Schneider using drugs 'to cope' and voluntarily admitting herself to a psychiatric hospital.A 1972 erotic drama film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Last Tango in Paris centres around a young Parisian woman who meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex.
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