12.03.2023 - 10:45 / variety.com
Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer 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 (“Bodies, Bodies, Bodies,” “Shiva Baby”) and Ayo Edebiri (“The Bear”) 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 (“Shiva Baby”) — who wrote the screenplay with Sennott — set out to do.
“I wanted to create a teen female queer story where the characters were not undergoing trauma but also weren’t these perfect, sweet, innocent beings,” Seligman said in the audience Q&A following the premiere. “We wanted to create messy, complicated, selfish, corny teen female characters that we could relate to.” (Seligman was supposed to premiere her feature directing debut with Sennott, “Shiva Baby,” at the 2020 SXSW Film Festival, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.) 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.” The SXSW audience roared with laughter throughout the movie, even when the Seligman’s heightened comedic
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“The Bear” is coming back.
has a return date.Season 2 of FX on Hulu's critically acclaimed series will return in June, it was announced in a new teaser that debuted during the Oscars telecast Sunday. follows the story of fine dining chef Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), who returns home save his family's failing Chicago sandwich shop, The Beef, in the wake of his brother's death.The 30-second TV spot revealed Carmy as well as the rest of the crew as they close The Beef and prepare to reopen as a new restaurant called The Bear.Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Ayo Edebiri, Abby Elliott, Lionel Boyce and Liza Colón-Zayas also star in the series, along with Edwin Lee Gibson and Matty Matheson.Watch the premiere announcement below.It’s not a reopening, it’s a rebirth. FX's The Bear returns this June.
Julia MacCary editor During Sunday’s Academy Award ceremony, FX dropped a trailer for the highly anticipated second season of “The Bear” and announced it will premiere in June. FX captioned its tweet of the teaser: “It’s not a reopening, it’s a rebirth. FX’s ‘The Bear’ returns this June. Only on Hulu.” “The Bear” follows a young classically-trained chef who returns to Chicago to run his family’s Italian beef sandwich shop after his brother’s death. The series stars Jeremy Allen White (Carmen “Carmey” Berzatto), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Richard “Richie” Jerimovich), Ayo Edebiri (Sydney Adamu), Lionel Boyce (Marcus), Liza Colón-Zayas (Tina) and Abby Elliott (Natalie “Sugar” Berzatto).
The filmmaker's reunion with "Shiva" star Rachel Sennott is a much broader and sillier affair.
Directed by Emma Seligman and written by Seligman and Rachel Sennott, Bottoms, is a coming of age story about two horny teenage girls kicking, punching, and slamming their way to getting laid. The film has a stacked cast including Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Ruby Cruz, and Miles Fowler. This comedic journey of its young protagonist is not without its issues, but it’s unapologetic in its execution and filled with memorable moments.
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