Note: Some language and visuals in this trailer may be NSFW.
A high school fight club. What could go wrong?
Rachel Sennott (Bodies Bodies Bodies) andAyo Edebiri(The Bear) star in the NSFWfirst trailerforBottoms, a teen comedy about two friends, PJ and Josie, who “start a fight club as a way to lose their virginities to cheerleaders.”
“Their bizarre plan works,” according to an official synopsis: “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.”
The cast also includes Havana Rose Liu,Kaia Gerber, Nicholas Galitzine,Dagmara Dominczykand former NFL playerMarshawn Lynch.
Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri inBottoms(2023).United Artists Releasing / Courtesy Everett Collection
United Artists Releasing / Courtesy Everett Collection
SeligmantoldEntertainment Weeklylast month that they “felt like queer women hadn’t gotten there due from a teen sex comedy.”
Added Sennott, “We said we want the girls to fight each other, we want there to be a bomb, we want them to be trying to win over the cheerleaders. We had references in our mind in terms ofScott Pilgrim,Jennifer’s Body,Jawbreaker, all these different movies. But we also wanted to make sure we weren’t [just] doing one and that it was a mashup of genres.”
“It’s a campy high school movie, but it’s also an action movie,” she added.
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“I star in it with my friend Ayo Edebiri. We did things together when we were still in college. So to get to go back into our little improv dynamic was so fun.”
Bottomsis in select theaters Aug. 25.
source: people.com
