BOTTOMS
Section: Headliners
Directors: Emma Seligman
Screenwriters: Emma Seligman & Rachel Sennott
Logline: Bottoms, a refreshingly unique raunchy comedy, focuses on two girls, PJ and Josie, who start a fight club as a way to lose their virginities to cheerleaders. Their bizarre plan works. The fight club gains traction and soon the most popular girls in school are beating each other up in the name of self-defense. But PJ and Josie find themselves in over their heads and in need of a way out before their plan is exposed.
Panelists: Rachel Sennott, Emma Seligman, Ayo Edebiri, Ruby Cruz, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Miles Fowler
Premiered: March 11, 2023
Key Quotes: Seligman: “Our goal was to make a queer teen story that wasn’t traumatic and that also wasn’t a cutesy, earnest, like non-sexual story. It felt really freeing to be able to tell something with more messy, real queer teens in it.”
Sennott: “It was rewarding to make something so stupid.”
Edebiri: “It’s fun and freeing, and being stupid is a political act.”
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