Director Emma Seligman discusses her chaotically brilliant second film ‘Bottoms’ Words Megan Wallace My friends and I have this game.
Take an object, any object – what pronouns would it have? Give it a try. A camping chair: they/them. A hot pink bicycle: she/her.
Bottoms, the new teen sex comedy about a sapphic fight club: deeeeeefinitely she/they. The second feature film from Shiva Baby director Emma Seligman explores “ugly, untalented gays” PJ (Sennott) and Josie (Edebiri), as this BFF duo plot to a) hook-up with cheerleaders and b) escape their existence at the bottom rung of the high school food chain.
After making up a rumour that they spent the summer in juvie, they decide to reinvent themselves in classic incel fashion: by starting a fight club.