Started at the Bottoms, now they’re here!
We met filming a sketch."
“We would get these emails that would be ‘Come hang out with the dean.’
Rachel Sennott as PJ and Ayo Edebiri as Josie in ‘Bottoms’.Courtesy of Orion Pictures
And the emails got more and more frantic.
Pie now!'”
It was very fun."
A lesbian teen fight club is born in ‘Bottoms,’ starring Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott.Courtesy of Orion Pictures
There would be more sketches in Edebiri and Sennott’s future.
But they remember even more high jinks.
“I remember you did an Instagram takeover of my story.
Do you remember that?
That was really fun.
I don’t know, just making stuff together, getting to know each other as friends.
And now they’re beating each other up on screen.
“We filmed for two years,” Edebiri says.
“And then we did boxing for a little just to break up the routine,” Sennott adds.
They let that image linger in the air for a beat, observing the reaction in the room.
Edebiri can’t contain her laughter, though.
“I’m lying, sorry,” she admits.
But it’s the ease of having been friends for as long as they have that shines through.
If Edebiri starts a bit, Sennott immediately picks up on it, adding to the absurdity.
It’s what made their improvising on the set ofBottomsso memorable.
When it’s Edebiri and Sennott telling the story, everything sounds entertaining.
That alone sounds like something to behold, but then there’s the added complication of bad weather.
“What stands out is two weeks of thunderstorms,” Sennott explains.
“We were literally shooting overnight on a football field.
It rained every night.
It literally rained thunderstorms every single night.
And we’re like, ‘Wait, what?!’
So then we all run back to the trailer.
So that last shot that big, beautiful oner we had to come back and do.
But I’m so glad we did because it’s incredible.”
Interviews were conducted prior to the start of the SAG-AFTRA strike.
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