Yes, the girlies are allowed to be horny.
‘Bottoms’ Director Emma Seligman pushed on their agenda that the fight club comedy is about girls who just simply want to get laid with other girls. Aside from their earlier comments about how ‘Bottoms’ can show queer women characters are allowed to be horny, Seligman further explains where the idea of the campy film came from. They said in an interview with Pink News that they had the idea when they were in college with their friend and fellow NYU Tisch School of the Arts classmate, Rachel Sennott. “The only comedy idea was just basically wanting to make a high school sex comedy for queer girls,” Seligman says.
Although the two had a relatively easy time writing the film, it was not a hit with production companies. Seligman recalls a phone call with an investor saying that they get that the protagonists are gay and horny, and just “want to get laid, that’s it.” This drove the 28-year-old director quite perplexed, saying, “It made me wonder, do people not get this because it’s not about being gay? Please assume gay characters and queer characters need to be in movies that center on that element. Maybe that’s part of why people didn’t get this. But I’ll never know.”
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