“All you have in this crazy industry is the people that you love to work with and the people that you know you work well with,” director Emma Seligman said of their second feature film, Bottoms, which stars longtime friends and collaborators Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri. “You start to understand why directors always work with the same actors. Because it’s easy. We speak the same language and they inspire you.” The 28-year-old Seligman first met Sennott and Edebiri when they were all college students at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In Bottoms, a high school comedy about a queer-female fight club, Sennott plays the cunning yet obnoxious PJ, while Edebiri plays clumsy yet endearing Josie. This is Seligman’s third collaboration with Sennott—who also co-wrote the film—and their second with Edebiri. Bottoms hits select theaters next Friday. —Carolina de Armas