Kristen Bell was the one who suggested the series cast Adam Brody in Nobody Wants This. The duo have been friends for years.
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Part of the conversion process included attending a 10-week program at American Jewish University. Before their wedding, Erin and Simon both attended an eight-week Choosing Judaism class.
The duo got married on New Year’s Eve in 2019. In May 2024, they welcomed their first child together. A daughter named Noa.
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Erin also explained that she needed her two leads to have incredible chemistry and great senses of humor, and casting the correct people for that was more important than her starring in the series herself.
Kristen said she talked with Erin extensively before taking the role because she wanted to make sure Erin was comfortable not playing a role initially written for herself.
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Kristen continued, saying, “In the very first meetings, I was like, ‘OK, yeah, I’d love to do this. And, also, Adam Brody is the guy.'”
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He continued, saying, “For whatever role that I’m doing, I will read related materials that appeal to me and help me think of some psychological ideas as well as performative ideas. With this, there’s such a real history representing a real culture and religion, and I felt more of an obligation to get it right.”
Adam also added, “I really did learn so much about the history of Judaism, and both this mythology that has affected and shaped a lot of our culture for millennia, and also so much about the people and their travels throughout history.”
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Erin said when she told the sunflower story in the Nobody Wants This writers’ room, “the men were baffled, but the women immediately got it.” She added, “That made me feel like it was a good story to tell.”
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Kristen said Adam’s struggle to open the wine bottle went on for so long that the original cut of the pilot was longer because Kristen and the other executive producers fought for “like, a six-minute version of that scene.”
Joanne laughing at Noah was all unscripted, too, as Kristen was genuinely laughing at Adam having such a hard time.
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Justine said she told Kristen Bell first, and Justine still remembers the conversation. She told the Jennifer Hudson Show, “[Kristen said, ‘It’s the most important thing, it’s the only thing — you can go anywhere in the world, you can have anything on your bucket list, but you’re about to go on the most special endeavor.'” Justine was five months pregnant when filming wrapped.
Series creator Erin Foster was also pregnant during filming.
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Jackie told People, “So I texted Kristen and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I have an audition for Rebecca on your show.’ And she was like, ‘You’re much more of an Esther if you want to read for that instead.’ I didn’t find out I got it until January 2024.”
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Adam told the LA Times, “If anything, that’s the only scene I felt the pressure because it’s the first day, and you’re like, ‘Lemme put this on film and see if it flies.'”
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Speaking about filming the moment, Adam Brody told the LA Times, “What was somewhat surreal to me was walking down Vermont Avenue for the kiss scene. Just having spent so much of my 20s on that street, so now to be on it thinking, ‘If you knew you’d be back here filming a series and doing a walk and talk down the street of your youth’— that was a surreal moment that was cool.”
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Kristen recalled the moment to MTV, saying, “And I remember audibly hearing all of the women, and some men, at video village, when he did it, and just kind of held my face, go— [gasps].”
She said this is when she realized that their chemistry was going to work.
When Joanne breaks up with Noah in the Season 1 finale, you’ll notice she puts her hand on his cheek instead.
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He continued, telling Harper’s Bazaar, “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.”
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She continued, telling TVLine, “It’s so sexy because you are this sweet guy, and you’re emotionally available, and you’re kind, and you need to be able to say to her, ‘Okay, you want me to kiss you? Put your shit down. I’m about to give you the best fucking kiss of your life.'”
Erin added, “It was really important to me. And, I, like, basically made him do it.”
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Kristen explained to Harper’s Bazaar, “We [did] a couple of takes where one of us was like, ‘Let’s just make it doubly as long — not the actual kiss, but the lead-up.’ Like, ‘Let’s just stretch out staring at each other for as long as we possibly can before we feel like we really should have wrapped already.'”
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