Tag: Shiva Baby
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Rachel Sennott on Pushing for ‘Bottoms’ Fight Scenes: ‘Girls Deserve to Beat Each Other Up’
Within the first few minutes of “Bottoms,” the raucous teen comedy from “Shiva Baby” team Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott, it’s clear this ain’t your average high school movie. The movies follows a pair of queer high school BFFs (played by Sennott and “The Bear” breakout Ayo Edebiri) who start a fight club at school…
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Like Rachel Sennott in ‘The Idol’? Watch This Anxiety-Inducing Comedy
In the early stages of her career, Rachel Sennott was always three steps ahead to ensure that her debut roles didn’t limit the types of characters she would play in the years to come. While she was still studying Drama at NYU Tisch, she made time to write sketches, perform standup at open mics, and…
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‘Bottoms’: Release Date, Plot, Cast, and Everything You Need to Know
The next entry in Emma Seligman’s filmography is another dark comedy titled Bottoms that will premiere at this year’s SXSW Festival. The Canadian director broke out on the cinema scene back in 2020 with her first feature film, Shiva Baby. The movie was also selected for SXSW and Toronto International Film Festival that year and…
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‘Bottoms’ Trailer: Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri Start a Female Fight Club in Raunchy R-Rated Comedy
A women’s self-defense club in a heightened toxic heterosexual high school? Welcome to “Bottoms.”Rachel Sennott co-wrote the high school comedy with “Shiva Baby” director Emma Seligman. Sennott plays queer teen Pj opposite “The Bear” breakout Ayo Edebiri, who portrays Pj’s childhood bestie Josie. The duo lust after their respective crushes, Isabel (Havana Rose Liu) and…
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‘Bottoms’ Trailer: Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri Start a Fight Club to Sleep With Cheerleaders in R-Rated, Lesbian Comedy
MGM has released the first official trailer for the upcoming comedy “Bottoms,” starring Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri.In a nod to David Fincher’s “Fight Club,” “Bottoms” follows two queer teen girls who start a fight club with a plan to lose their virginities to cheerleaders. According to the film’s official logline, “Their bizarre plan works.…
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Trailer Watch: Emma Seligman’s Bottoms
Emma Seligman appeared on our annual 25 New Faces of Film list back in 2020 ahead of the release of Shiva Baby, her feature debut starring Rachel Sennott as a young woman navigating anxiety-inducing encounters at a relative’s wake. She reunites with Sennott for her sophomore feature Bottoms, which she co-wrote with the actress who…
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‘Bottoms’ Review: The ‘Shiva Baby’ Team Returns with Idiosyncratic Queer Teen Comedy
The easiest way to describe Emma Seligman’s sophomore feature, “Bottoms”? It’s hilariously weird. Director Seligman and star Rachel Sennott reunite in their follow-up to “Shiva Baby,” taking as hard a pivot from their 2020 breakout (and a script they co-wrote) as they come.This is a queer teen sex comedy that wears its influences on its…
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‘Bottoms’ Premiere Brings Teenage Lesbian Fight Clubs to SXSW
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 themselves for an experience that defied description, and that’s largely what they got.The movie stars Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri (“The Bear”) as high schoolers who decide…
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Enough Already! Let’s Agree It’s Weird When Gentiles Play Jewish Characters — Opinion
There’s no getting around it: talking about representation in movies these days is a sticky, tricky subject. But is it Ok to admit that when Michelle Williams rattles off a “dahlink” to her brood and Anthony Hopkins instructs his grandson to “be a mensch” in his Welsh brogue, things are a little weird, nu?There are…