How Rachel Sennott turned the summer's most 'annoying' character into a breakout role

After completing the short film version of "Shiva Baby" in 2018, Rachel Sennott went for a walk around the neighborhood where she did the project with writer, director and friend Emma Seligman.

"We were so inspired, and we were like, 'We're going to do all of this,'" Sennott recalls — including a feature-length adaptation of the short.

Reality soon hit as they were "slogging through the mud" for two years getting the feature off the ground, giving Sennott a crash course in indie filmmaking.

"It taught me that sometimes it's a very slow-burning thing," she says. "And you really have to push your baby forward, because no one else is going to do it."

That lesson led Sennott to her standout role in A24's "Bodies Bodies