Rachel Sennott had one job: Don’t read the reviews.
“Everyone’s like, ‘Don’t read the reviews!'”
“Obviously I’m reading it aloud to everyone from my phone in the Sprinter van.
Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott as Josie and PJ in ‘Bottoms’.Courtesy of ORION Pictures Inc.
We were going between the same two hotels.”
She couldn’t help herself.
People were stumbling on the indie darling through video on demand.
This was SXSW, where they unveiledBottomsto a packed crowd of rowdy movie lovers.
“There were so many lovely queer kids I kept meeting throughout Austin who were like, ‘Hi!
This means a lot,'” says Seligman, who uses she/they pronouns.
“But definitely we felt like queer women hadn’t gotten there due from a teen sex comedy.”
It’s a campy high school movie, but it’s also an action movie."
Yes, more than a little blood is left on the mat in this fight club.
“I think no one actually thought that we were gonna make it bloody,” Sennott adds.
“We had our producers calling them being like, ‘Did you add quotes?'”
“And they were like, ‘Just for clarity, it’s not actually a fight club…?’
We were like, ‘It’s a fight club!'”
She and Sennott go further back than Sennott and Seligman.
It’s no coincidence thatBottomsand that web series have similar vibes.
“There was action in this movie.
I would love to do a true action movie with her,” says the filmmaker.
“I would definitely want it to be totally different than the other two,” says Sennott.
“We need something to strike us and be like, ‘Whoa!’
" How about a musical?
The actress replies, “As long as I don’t have to be the singer.”
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