Change the extra field data in Many-to-many relationship in Django - django

Question

I have a Many-to-many relationship with additional fields and I want to be able to change data in these fields (e.g. the status of friendship). How can I do that? All the info I found is about how to just read these data.
class Profile(models.Model):
# other fields
friends = models.ManyToManyField("self", blank=True, through='Friendship',
through_fields=('user', 'friend'),
symmetrical=False,
related_name='user_friends')
class Friendship(models.Model):
user = models.ForeignKey(Profile, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='friendships1')
friend = models.ForeignKey(Profile, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='friendships2')
status = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField(default=0)
class Meta:
unique_together = [['user', 'friend']]
I tried this and that didn't work, though no error was shown:
user = User.objects.get(username=request.user)
watched_user = User.objects.get(id=watched_user_id)
Friendship.objects.filter(user=user.profile, friend=watched_user.profile).status = 5
user.save()
I can't call Friendship.save() as it has no self.
And also I tried this and again no effect and no error:
user.profile.friends.set([watched_user.profile], through_defaults={'status': 5})
user.save()
And this gives me an error that there's no friend field and shows me the fields of Profile, not Friendship:
user.profile.user_friends.get(user=user.profile, friend=watched_user.profile).status=5
Please help me!
Upd: the answer helped and it works now! Thanks!
Though I still wonder if this is the only way or it can also be done from the user.profile side.

Answer 1

You can work with:
friendship = Friendship.objects.get(
user=user.profile,
friend=watched_user.profile
)
friendship.status = 5
friendship.save()
Here however there can be multiple Friendships between the same two users.
We can update all these friendships in bulk with:
Friendship.objects.filter(
user=user.profile,
friend=watched_user.profile
).update(status=5)