Nobody Wants This is based on a true story (Picture: Netflix/Adam Rose. All Rights Reserved)
Netflix’s latest romantic-comedy series Nobody Wants This has delighted fans who are shocked to learn that the love story is loosely based on real life.
Kristen Bell and Adam Brody’s new rom-com series, Nobody Wants This, landed on the streaming giant last week and has already garnered huge support from fans who are obsessed with the romantic series.
The rom-com has a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score and fans have hailed the series for featuring the ‘best ever’ kiss on screen.
Fans have compared the hilarious comedy to Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag because of the love story between a normal girl and a hot Priest – or in this case a hot Rabbi.
The story follows the struggles faced by Noah (Brody) and Joanne (Bell) who face criticism from people who can’t understand the love between a rabbi and a non-Jewish woman with seemingly nothing in common.
But many were surprised to learn that this series isn’t totally fictional, in fact the show is based on a real-life romance.
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Creator, Writer, and Executive Producer of the series, Erin Foster converted to Reform Judaism after falling in love with a man named Simon Tikhman.
Unlike Noah in the series, Simon is not a Rabbi, but Erin admitted that she knew early on that if things were to get serious, Simon could only marry a Jewish woman.
While explaining how her life inspired the series, she told Harper’s Bazaar: ‘When I met Simon, he said it would be important to him to marry someone Jewish and asked me if I would convert.
‘It was kind of like, “Yeah. Whatever. I’ll be Jewish.” It didn’t really mean anything to me at the time. It was sort of like, “Yeah, sure, all my friends are Jewish.”’
She then joked that she was in her mid-thirties so just wanted to ‘lock it down’.
‘If he had asked me to be in a cult, I would’ve been in a cult. I was 35 and needed to lock it down. So I thought, “Of course I will.” But then when I went through the process and went to the converting classes at Wilshire Boulevard Temple, it was this really fascinating, expansive, cool world,’ she said.
Erin and Simon have been married for five years (Picture: Sydney Jackson/BFA.com/REX/Shutterstock)
The series has been highly rated on Rotten Tomatoes (Picture: SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX)
Erin also revealed that like Joanne’s experience with Noah’s family, her husband’s family were initially perplexed to be around someone so open and opinionated.
‘His parents weren’t really used to someone being so unfiltered, and uncensored, and saying how I feel all the time.
‘That was not something that they were used to, and I wasn’t really used to being with parents where you have to be careful what you say and not swear around them.
‘There was an adjustment …read more
Source:: Metro
