Before the LGBTQ teen sex comedy “Bottoms” premiered at the SXSW Film Festival on Saturday, festival director Claudette Godfrey told the audience in the Paramount Theater to prepare the…
as high schoolers who decide to form a girls’ fight club — technically, a self-defense club — in order to convince the two hottest cheerleaders in school to sleep with them. What unfolds isn’t quite like any high school sex comedy before it, which was exactly what director Emma Seligman — who wrote the screenplay with Sennott — set out to do.
Sennott said she also wanted to be matter-of-fact about how much the characters would already know about sex. “Sometimes it’s like the girls discover a vibrator in the couch and they’re like, ‘Oh my god! What is it?! We’re scared!’” Sennott said. “It’s not that scary. It’s blue. We all have, like, six in the drawer. We just wanted to go there and be real with that.”
“We were trying to make a satire, and we wanted to be able to reflect the times that we’re in,” Seligman said. “I don’t think we’re doing our job properly unless we’re making a high school movie that actually takes place in a high school that people can relate to right now. So that’s where that darkness came in.”
“If I had seen this when I was 16, this probably would have made my life slightly easier — and then maybe slightly harder as well,” Edebiri said.
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