Bottoms
‘Fellow Travelers,’ ‘Monica,’ ‘Ted Lasso’ and Reneé Rapp Win Big at GLAAD Media Awards in L.A.
Awards season is not over just yet. The GLAAD Media Awards went down inside the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills on Thursday, a ceremony that saw trophies handed out to winners across film, TV, music and media. Wayne Brady hosted the star-studded event at which Oprah Winfrey took home a Vanguard Award presented by Chilli […]
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SXSW Favorite ‘Bottoms’ Is Now Streaming: Here’s Where to Watch the “Raunchy” Teen Comedy Online
Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri star as two unpopular and superficial queer high school students who start a girls-only fight club as a guise to have sex with their cheerleader love interests.
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Ayo Edebiri Keeps Shouting Out Ireland — and the Country Is Embracing It
On Jan. 14, just a day before The Bear and Bottoms star Ayo Edebiri would win her first Emmy, the actress, writer and comedian would shout out Ireland while accepting a Critics Choice Award for best actress in a comedy. “I want to thank my real family, I don’t know if they have CW abroad. […]
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How Films Like ‘All of Us Strangers,’ ‘Passages’ and ‘Bottoms’ Usher in a New Era for Queer Storytelling
A film director sleeping with a young woman behind his husband’s back. A group of horny teenage girls starting a fight club. A middle-aged swimmer attempting to swim from Cuba to Florida. This year, queer stories seem to be breaking from common narrative tropes — coming out, persecution, HIV/AIDS — in a major way. But […]
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Emma Seligman Directed ‘Bottoms’ Because She “Wanted to See Superficial, Horny, Messy Teenage Girls Who Happen to Be Queer”
Bottoms is bloody good fun. In the high school sex comedy, which premiered at SXSW, two lesbian students — played by Rachel Sennott (The Idol) and Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) — are so eager to lose their virginity that they start an after-school fight club, all in the hopes of seducing cheerleaders. Due out Aug. […]
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Rachel Sennott, Ayo Edebiri Start a High School Fight Club to Hook Up With Cheerleaders in ‘Bottoms’ Trailer
Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri are literally fighting for a chance to find love at their high school in the first full trailer for the forthcoming comedy Bottoms. Director Emma Seligman’s feature focuses on PJ (Sennott) and Josie (Edebiri), who start a fight club in an unconventional effort to lose their virginities to two popular […]
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‘Elemental,’ ‘Bottoms,’ ‘Chasing Chasing Amy’ and ‘Our Son’ Among Frameline’s 2023 Festival Lineup
Frameline’s 2023 festival lineup includes Pixar’s new film Elemental, the Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott-starring Bottoms, a screening of Chasing Amy and its new reflective doc, Chasing Chasing Amy, and the Billy Porter and Luke Evans-led Our Son. The 47th edition of the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival runs June 14-24 and will feature […]
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Queer High School Comedy ‘Bottoms’ Brings the Blood to SXSW 2023
Bottoms brought the blood to its SXSW premiere. Creative duo Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott were on hand at the Paramount Theater two years after the premiere of their breakout feature Shiva Baby was set to premiere at the festival but was waylaid by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this queer coming-of-age romance, which doubles as […]
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