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Why the Filmmakers Behind the Hew Hit Comedy ‘Bottoms’ Were Committed to Making the Main Characters Friendship as Messy as Possible · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Director Emma Seligman, and star Rachel Sennett first teamed up
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  Speaker 2: for their independent comedy Shiva Baby, which came about after
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  Speaker 2: they bonded as college students and became best friends and
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  Speaker 2: writing partners, and they've teamed back up with a new
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  Speaker 2: absurdist high school comedy, Bottoms, about two best friends living
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  Speaker 2: in a not so appealing alternate reality, and Emma says
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  Speaker 2: being so close with Rachel couldn't help a trickle through
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  Speaker 2: into the script, but they were careful about what parts
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  Speaker 2: made it. In telling Indy Wire, I don't think we
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  Speaker 2: consciously were putting our friendship into the movie, because when
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  Speaker 2: we started writing it, we knew the friendship was going
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  Speaker 2: to ground the movie, and we really didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: ground it at all. We thought, this needs to be
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  Speaker 2: completely absurd. There's been an abundance of female friendships in movies,
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  Speaker 2: especially in comedies, where they need to be so overly
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  Speaker 2: supportive of each other. We were so sick of seeing that.
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  Speaker 2: We wanted to see messier, more flawed friends. Bottoms is
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  Speaker 2: in select theaters now.
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