"I think Bertolucci is over-rated and he never really made anything after Last Tango that had the same impact. "I watched it again three years ago after Marlon died and it seems kitsch," she exclaims. Watching the film now with its over-wrought score, its scenes replete with meaningful silences and its sexual content, much of Last Tango, unlike Schneider, has aged. People today are used to such things but when the film opened in 1972, it was scandalous." "However, I never went naked in a movie again after Last Tango, even though I was offered many such roles. "People still recognise me in the street and say I haven't changed, which is good. "Marlon was shy about his body, but nudity wasn't a problem for me in those days as I thought it was beautiful," she says, her voice husky and smoke-tinged. The baby-faced prettiness is still there, if a little more knowing these days, her long, curly hair is pinned up and her face devoid of make-up. Schneider lives in Paris, and at 55, retains the enviable figure that she so magnificently paraded, mostly nude, in Last Tango. I've made 50 films in my career and Last Tango is 35 years old, but it's still the one that everyone asks me about," she says.
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