13 “Nobody Wants This” Behind-The-Scenes Facts About That First Kiss Scene
“I remember audibly hearing all of the women, and some men, at video village, when he did it, and just kind of held my face, go— [gasps].”
If you’ve been on Netflix recently, you’ve probably noticed there’s a new #1 show in the US. Nobody Wants This is a brand-new romantic comedy series by Erin Foster that has everyone talking.
Starring Adam Brody and Kristen Bell, Nobody Wants This follows Joanne (Bell) and Noah (Brody), an agnostic podcast host and an unconventional rabbi who seem like an unlikely pair on paper. However, after they meet at a party and walk out together, they can’t help but realize there is something between them.
And while the whole series is a rom-com lover’s dream, there is one scene in particular that has everyone swooning, and that’s Joanne and Noah’s first kiss in Episode 2.
After being invited out to dinner by Noah, Joanne starts to open up to him and ends up spending the whole evening with him. The adorable date night culminates in a kiss that Joanne even deems one of the best she’s ever had.
So, because everyone can’t stop thinking about it, here are just 13 facts about how Joanne and Noah’s first kiss was filmed in Nobody Wants This:
1. First, Kristen Bell said filming the kiss was “daunting” because the script read something like, “They experience the world’s greatest kiss.”
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Speaking to MTV, Kristen said she and Adam knew they had to “pull this off” after reading how it was described in the script.
2. Kristen told MTV that she “wasn’t prepared” for Adam Brody to put his hands on her face during the moment, which he ultimately did in all of Joanne and Noah’s kisses throughout the series. She said that crew members gasped because it was so perfect, and that’s when Kristen realized, “Oh, this is gonna work.”
3. While filming the scene, Adam said there were paparazzi on the street taking pictures of him and Kristen while they filmed. He said it added to the nervousness they both felt while filming it. At the time the photos, like the one below, went viral online.
4. In fact, the whole show was filmed on location in Los Angeles, so in the lead-up to Noah and Joanne’s first kiss, they are actually walking down Vermont Avenue.
5. Kristen said that she and Adam wanted to make sure all of the little moments leading up to the actual kiss were done right because that’s what makes a good kiss so memorable. Everything they added in leading up was kept in the final cut.
6. Kristen and Adam believe that “the kiss is not the important part,” but the “anticipation” is what makes it so great.
7. Creator Erin Foster said Adam “didn’t want” to tell Joanne to put her ice cream down during the scene because he felt Noah was “bossing her around,” while Erin explained that “it is hot. It’s so sexy.”
8. Adam liked how it was a slow buildup to the moment when they finally kiss and found it a nice juxtaposition to some TV and movie kisses where “they thought of the kiss at the same time, and they’re all of a sudden…it’s on.”
9. They filmed Noah and Joanne’s first kiss a few times, with Adam and Kristen even making the lead-up to the actual kiss even longer in a few takes.
10. The little moment when Noah sneaks in another kiss right before Joanne leaves wasn’t scripted; it was something Adam and Kristen added in while filming. Adam said it was “the most real” thing they did during the whole kiss scene.
11. Kristen called this the “best onscreen kiss” she’s ever done, telling TVLine that she and Adam really wanted to “pump up the anticipatory value of it.”
12. Adam said he felt the kiss was “easy to shoot” because he and Kristen have been friends for so long, and have worked together before, so he “knew” they had great chemistry.
13. And finally, Kristen said she knew they had something special when she showed Episode 2 to her husband, Dax Shepard, and he leaned over during the kiss scene and said, “God, I want you guys to kiss so badly.”
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