All the things about ‘Nobody Wants This’ that are BLOWING our minds

The year’s best rom-com is a millennial’s wet dream - but there are SO many things about the series that will make fans drop their drawers, er jaws.

If you haven’t declared ‘hot rabbi’ your new internet husband, then let this be a very polite warning to go and get some right this minute, because this article contains spoilers.

 

Lately, it’s almost impossible not to be spammed by reels of that kiss on any social media platform. Yes, we’re talking about the delicious ice cream one. Not that we’re complaining, of course. Drown us in hot rabbi lust all you like, Netflix …

Fans of the hit Netflix rom-com, Nobody Wants This, were already hot under the collar after bingeing all ten episodes of the first season - and now to hear it’s been given the green light for season two is well, giving us all sorts of fantasies about what we can expect from the hottest on-screen couple of the year.

If you’ve been living under a rock, Nobody Wants This is the millennial rom-com of our dreams starring Kristen Bell and Adam Brody.

Bell, of Veronica Mars fame, plays Joanne, an agnostic sex and relationships podcaster who becomes intimately entwined with Noah, a basketball-loving Jewish rabbi, played by Brody, who was everyone’s childhood crush, Seth Cohen in The O.C.

If the series wasn’t juicy enough, the story of just how the show came about and relationships of the co-stars is literally blowing our minds …

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The show will satisfy that Adam Brody appetite to make us wanting more. Image: Netflix

It’s based on a real life couple

The series was created and inspired by 42-year-old Los Angeles-based actress and podcaster, Erin Foster, who is the daughter of music mogul, David Foster. Her sister, Sara, is her co-host on The World’s First Podcast.

She brushed shoulders with Adam Brody when she played a teen bully in The O.C and was even in the scene where Mischa Barton’s character was killed in a car crash.

After being on the dating scene in her thirties, she met entertainment executive Simon Tikhman who is, yes, Jewish (but not a rabbi). Foster told the LA Times that during their first conversation "over juice at the gym," Tikhman mentioned that anyone he marries "has to be Jewish”.

Foster converted to Judaism - via a 10-week program - before the wedding, and after a long and arduous IVF battle of 20 failed rounds, the couple are now parents to a four-month-old baby girl, Noa Mimi.

Foster originally created the show with herself in mind to play Joanne, but Netflix opted for Bell - something Foster now sees as the perfect choice, as the change also allowed her to step back from her career to focus on her pregnancy. 

While the show has added conflict for effect, Foster says in real life, she has a “great relationship” with her in-laws, so much so that her MIL has a cameo in the first episode. 

Creating the series, however, did cause conflict at first between her and her hubby. “He said, ‘You can’t write about my family’,” Foster told the LadyGang podcast, adding it made her doubt her choice to sell it. “I don’t want to do this. It’s gonna get me divorced!”

In the end, adjustments were made to make Tikhman more comfortable with his private life being put on blast, notably Noah’s character being a rabbi rather than a music exec.

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Kristen Bell and Adam Brody’s bizarre six degrees of separation

In the interest of not wanting them to be homewreckers, we are happily not shipping Bell and Brody in real life despite their insane chemistry.

Brody is a dad-of-two and married to Gossip Girl alum, Leighton Meester, while Bell has two daughters with her actor/podcaster husband, Dax Shepard.

In an interview with Bustle, both actors admitted they had never seen each other’s iconic shows, Veronica Mars and The O.C, but Bell went one step further. “Now, did I have a crush on Adam? Of course. Everybody did,” she said.

The pair became buddies after working together on House of Lies, Scream 4, CHiPs and Some Girl(s), while Bell and Meester also crossed paths on our screens in ways most people will forget. Bell was the elusive narrator in Gossip Girl (“Hey, Upper East Siders”) while Meester made many guest appearances on Veronica Mars.

Is Adam Brody Jewish?

The 44-year-old actor is Jewish and had a Bar Mitzvah but did not grow up learning about it and is now an atheist.

“I didn’t know the first thing about Judaism,” he told the LA Times about landing the role.

He added to Bazaar: “It’s a religious experience, my experience having kids, but it hasn’t changed my outlook on faith at all. I guess I’m dancing around it, but I’m an atheist, and it’s not that I’m proud of it. But at the same time, I’m not ashamed of it. I’m happy about it, and I won’t shy away from it.”

He initially didn’t want to be a rabbi - albeit a hot one - at all.

“I initially winced at the religiosity of it,” he told the LA Times. “But I came around to being excited by that aspect and going, ‘Well, that’s the different part than me, and that’s what will be fun stuff to research and explore and commit to and play’.”

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The truth about that kiss - and the unscripted moments

When asked about how he was meant to act out the first kiss that made us go weak at the knees, Brody told Bazaar: “All I can say is, in the script, it says something to the effect of ‘the greatest kiss of all time’ ... The thing that felt the most real to me is then we stop [kissing], and then you’ve got to go, and then there’s another quick kiss.”

“That wasn’t scripted,” Bell told the website of the go-back kiss. “That, to me, feels so organic, true to life - the first time you’re making out with somebody, and it’s so great and you don’t want to say goodbye, and it’s like you’re kissing until the last second.”

The tender moment that was also unscripted was Brody’s choice to put his hands on Bell’s face during the lusty pash.

"My greatest memory is that I wasn't prepared for Adam to put his hands on my face as he did with so many of the kisses," Bell told MTV. “I was like, 'Oh, this is gonna work’."

Bell’s husband was even a fan of her steamy on-screen chemistry.

"When I was showing my husband the first episode, he grabbed my arm during that scene and goes, 'God, I want you guys to kiss so bad!’" Bell told TV Line.

‘Nobody Wants This’ has plenty of people talking. Image: Netlfix

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So many didn’t want it

“We got rejected everywhere before Netflix,” Foster told Deadline of the years she tried to sell the show. “A few people said it felt small because it was about Jewish and non-Jewish people, and they were like, this feels so specific. Hulu passed, Apple passed, FX passed …”

What happens to hot rabbi in season two?

An air date hasn’t been announced, but Foster revealed to Deadline what she has planned: “I would want to pick up where we left off and figure out what that looks like. I mean, two people in a romantic gesture at the end of a show can choose each other. But what does that look like? Does he have a job? Are they going to run away together? Is his family going to accept the decision he made? The pressure of that on the relationship would be a lot. So I think there’s a lot more questions than answers at the end.”

Whatever happens, we know we’ll want whatever they serve up.

‘Nobody Wants This’ is streaming now on Netflix.

Originally published as All the things about ‘Nobody Wants This’ that are BLOWING our minds