We’ll FINALLY be able to watch this bloody lesbian-centred high school film
BY NIC CROSARA, IMAGE BY WARNERBROS
Ever since Bottoms premiered in the US in August, I have been Googling “When will Bottoms be released in the UK?” on an almost daily basis. It’s received so much hype both within and outside of the LGBTQIA community. I already know from the trailers that it will be a film that I wish existed when I was a teenager.
The film stars Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott as two high school lesbians, who set up a school fight club. The club launches the former “ugly, untalented gays” to a higher status on campus. And soon it looks like they may be able to actually use their new-found popularity and charisma to try to hook up with the hottest cheerleaders.
In an interview with Variety, director Emma Seligman said, “I miss over-the-top high school movies… I just wanted to bring it back. And part of bringing it back for me is making it queer and female-driven. But to me that doesn’t change the genre, it just is our version of it.”
In another interview with The New York Times, Emma said: “[We wanted to focus the satire on] the way queer teen characters are always so innocent in teen movies. Whether they’re being traumatised or finding love, they’re so sweet and often don’t have any sexual thoughts at all — or if they do, they’re not expressing it, or they’re not talking in a vulgar way.”
And UK viewers will FINALLY be able to see the horny, bloody lesbian-centred high school film because it’s coming to cinemas on 3 November! The wait is FINALLY (almost) over. I just know that this film is about to become at least 99% of my personality, sorry, not sorry.
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