Adam Brody and Kristen Bell Used His Real-Life Struggles with Opening Wine as Improv Fodder forNobody Wants This

Mar. 15, 2025

(L) Kristen Bell and Adam Brody.Photo:Adam Rose/Netflix

Adam Rose/Netflix

Adam Brodyturned lemons into lemonade when he struggled to open a bottle of wine.

“Speaking of improv, in the pilot I have to give Kristen and Adam credit for something,” Foster, 42, laughed. “When Adam went to open the bottle of wine, we discovered in real time that Adam does not know how to open a bottle of wine. That was real and these two stayed in character!”

Kristen Bell as Joanne, Adam Brody as Noah in episode 106 of Nobody Wants This.Adam Rose/Netflix

“I was thinking if I was a better actor, I would’ve learned how to open a bottle of wine before we shot it,” Brody, 44, joked before Foster shared she loved how the actors “leaned into” the moment.

“It’s so special because it’s totally real and they kept the dialogue going. But then when you say like, ‘Oh, it’s an embarrassing thing about me, I was a sommelier,'” she recalled. “That’s all just improv that he came up with because he genuinely couldn’t open a bottle of wine.”

Bell, 44, added that the scene had to be cut down, and it had been “originally seven and a half minutes of him trying to open the bottle of wine.”

The 10-episode series, which began streaming on Sept. 26 and wasrenewed for a second seasonin October, follows a budding romance between newly single rabbi Noah (Brody) and sex podcaster Joanne (Bell) and a slew of naysayers who claim their relationship won’t work.

Kristen Bell and Adam Brody in ‘Nobody Wants This’.Stefania Rosini/Netflix

Stefania Rosini/Netflix

The show’s concept was born in 2019 when Foster, who is the daughter of Grammy-winning producerDavid Foster, was in the midst of converting to Judaism after meeting her now-husband Simon Tikhman. The couple first met at a Los Angeles gym in 2018 and got engaged the following year.

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Brody and Bell’s chemistry on the show has been undeniable — even theVeronica Marsalum’s husband,Dax Shepard, has previously joked thattheir sparks were “not as good as her and Brody.”

“My friend … we watched that scene together, the kissing scene, which I’d argue is the very best kissing scene ever, ever put on film,” Shepard said of the smooching during the New Yorker Festival in October. “And my best friend, Aaron, from childhood, he goes, ‘Does she ever kiss you like that?’ No, I didn’t even know she could kiss like that.”

Season 1 ofNobody Wants Thisis now streaming on Netflix.

source: people.com