Everybody wants this: The second season of Netflix rom-com Nobody Wants This will premiere on Oct. 23.
The series stars Kristen Bell as Joanne, a podcaster who finds love with an attractive rabbi named Noah (Adam Brody). It also features Timothy Simons, Jackie Tohn, Stephanie Faracy, Michael Hitchcock, Tovah Feldshuh, Paul Ben-Victor, Emily Arlook, Sherry Cola, and Shiloh Berman. Guest stars for Season 2 include Leighton Meester, Miles Fowler, Alex Karpovsky, and Arian Moayed.
The cast was on hand yesterday to announce the premiere date at an Emmys event at the the Academy Museum in Los Angeles. Netflix later shared a short video of the cast asking a “special” Magic 8 Ball about the forthcoming season.
In a joint interview with Rolling Stone after the Season 1 premiere, Brody and Bell discussed the series and why they wanted to bring back the rom-com.
“Rom-coms leaned into simplicity for a while, and the reason I liked this one is there are some very complex issues at play that do harken back to Romeo and Juliet, where you want them so badly to be together, you want the world to disappear for them,” Bell said. “I liked the real-life complexity of a girl who doesn’t really know how to have a good date because she’s a self-sabotager [being] with a “good boy,” where the world around him doesn’t necessarily approve of this relationship, and then figuring out if and how they can make it work.”
Brody added of his fan favorite character, “I thought it was very charming, and I also liked the idea of playing a rabbi. Even though I’ve played Jewish characters before, I’ve never played somebody so faith-based. So to lean into that side of it, and something very different from my own personality, I thought would be interesting.”
From Rolling Stone US
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