Nobody Wants This: The True Story Behind The Romcom Series

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If you’ve been bingeing Nobody Wants This this week, you’re not the only one.

The Netflix romcom series dropped a few days back, and already there’s been memes, twists, and sufficient shocks that a modern romcom can exist and not entirely make us cringe.

The series follows sex podcaster Joanne, played by Kristen Bell, who falls in love with rabbi Noah (Adam Brody), who is newly out of a longterm relationship.

What follows is a series dominated by laughs, heartache, and genuinely heartwarming moments that you just don’t really get in romcoms released past 2007.

But enough about the plot of the show, and onto the plot of real life. 

 

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Nobody Wants This is actually inspired by creator Erin Foster’s real relationship with her now husband Simon Tikhman.

Erin, a prolific TV writer, met Simon (who is not a Rabbi, but is Jewish), at the gym in 2018. The pair soon began dating and experienced a lot of the cultural differences depicted in the show.

In 2019, the couple got engaged, later marrying on New Year’s Eve in a traditional Jewish ceremony. They soon welcomed their first child together.

“Ladies, I guess the moral of the story is stay crazy because apparently it gets you a ring,” Erin wrote on Instagram, announcing their engagement.

Foster said on The World’s First Podcast that she and Simon came from different places, and that she did worry about how their lives would intertwine.

 

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“We didn’t come from similar backgrounds,” she said. “He came from a much more traditional place. I came from a more unconventional place. When we got together we were like, ‘How’s this gonna work?’”

She also added that Brody’s character is very like her husband, in that he is “emotionally available, chivalrous, old-fashioned… but also really funny and confident.”

Before getting married, Erin decided to convert to Judaism, however in Nobody Wants This, Joanne is unsure whether she’s going to make that choice.

You’ll have to tune in to see what happens, we guess…

Nobody Wants This is streaming now on Netflix. 

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