Well, no one wants that.
Erin Foster was worried that Netflix’s new romantic comedy series Nobody Wants This, starring Adam Brody and Kristen Bell, would lead to her divorce.
“When I met Simon and we settled into this healthy relationship, I was on the verge of converting to Judaism,” Foster, 42, recalled during a recent appearance on the LadyGang podcast.
She thought her romance with husband Simon Tichman, 40, would make for an interesting show idea, so she pitched it to 20th Century Fox.
Ms. Tiffman told her partner that they had sold the show about how they met and that his family didn’t like her, saying, “I can’t write about my family.”
“Really?” One of the “LadyGang” members said, surprised by this fact. Foster later admitted that she believed the show affected her relationships.
“I don’t want to do this,” she recalled telling herself. “If this continues, we will get divorced!”
In a panic, Ms. Foster called her father-in-law and told him, “I want to be honest with you, I sold this show…the concept of the show…”
What was his reaction? “Don’t think of us as poor.”
The final episode ended on a cliffhanger, as Netflix had just renewed the series for a second season. The news was announced Thursday by Bela Bajaria, Netflix’s chief content officer, at the Bloomberg Screen Time conference in Los Angeles.
“Creating ‘Nobody Wants This’ has been a forever career highlight for me. All of our incredible cast, crew, producers and executives have helped make this show what it is today, and now that this series has been released to the world. , experiencing the audience reaction was more than I could have ever dreamed of,” Foster said in a statement. statement.
“I’m so lucky to be able to continue this story and work with Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan, who I’ve been a huge fan of since ‘Girls’… It’s only fair that healthy relationships are the most romantic!”
Season 2 will feature Connor and Kaplan as executive producers and showrunners. Nora Silver will also serve as an executive producer for next season.
“Working on ‘Nobody Wants This’ is a dream. Erin is a rare creator with a clear voice and a true collaborative spirit,” Connor told Netflix. “I’m a true fan of Erin’s show, and I feel so lucky to be back in the room with two of my favorite people, Bruce Kaplan and Sarah Hayward from Girls.”
Kaplan is thrilled to be joining the romantic comedy family, calling the show “a very unique and beautiful show and one I’ve already had a great time working on.”
“Conversations have definitely started about a potential Season 2,” Foster told IndieWire last month. “The story in Season 1 unfolds really slowly. So if there’s a Season 2, I’d like to pick up where we left off and continue slowly, because I don’t want it to get too far ahead of itself. .”
“We’re getting a really positive response,” she continued. “And I think conversations have definitely started to happen about a possible Season 2.”
Although the details of “Nobody Wants This” are not real events, the emotions surrounding Foster’s experience remain the same.
Like Bell’s character, sex-positive podcast host Joanne, Foster falls in love with Tichman. She did not grow up Jewish and converted to Judaism before marrying her husband in 2019, although he is not a rabbi like Noah, played by Brody.
According to the report, Foster grew up in a non-religious family, while Tiffman is passionate about Judaism and wants to pass it on to her daughter, Noah.
“We didn’t come from similar backgrounds,” Foster said on a podcast with her sister Sarah Foster. “He comes from a more traditional place. I come from a more unconventional place. When we got together, we were like, ‘How is this going to turn out?'” (daughters of record producer David Foster).
One notable comparison between the show and Erin’s real life is how the two met each other’s families. In episode 6, Noah meets Joan’s mother in gym clothes while carrying sunflowers, which causes Joan to “feel sick”.
In fact, Tikman brought sunflowers to Erin’s mother, which worried her mother.
“It’s not necessarily something specific that I can point to,” Erin told Today. “I think this emotional journey is very accurate to my experience of meeting my husband.”
The 10-episode romantic comedy series is currently streaming on Netflix.
