How far would you go to impress your high school crush? Well, for high school students PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri), the protagonists and "ugly, untalented gays" in Bottoms, this involves starting an extracurricular fight club and fabricating a sordid summer break spent in juvie. They're hoping to impress cheerleaders Isabel (Havana Rose Liu) and Brittany (Kaia Gerber), who are beautiful, popular, and – worst of all – ostensibly heterosexual.
For a while, it seemed like the movie, which is the second feature from Shiva Baby director Emma Seligman, may not even get a UK release date, premiering on Prime Video instead outside of the US. "I'm so happy that it's coming here," Seligman says when we sit down to chat at a central London hotel. "I really hoped that it would, because I felt like UK audiences might appreciate it on a different level."
