While the cast and creator of Nobody Wants This came out to celebrate season two at an Emmys For Your Consideration event on Friday night, season three was fresh on their minds after having just wrapped filming this week.
Kristen Bell, Adam Brody, Timothy Simons and Jackie Tohn joined creator Erin Foster at the L.A. event, as Foster gave a tease at what they had cooked up in the new episodes.
“It was important to me to show the back half of early romance when things get real and it’s not always a fairytale, but it is a different kind of love story, it’s a different kind of fairytale, which is like the stability and the trusting each other,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “It doesn’t sound sexy but that is the foundation of a good relationship. So now that that’s established and there’s no more breaking up, there’s no more like running to each other, now it’s like, OK let’s move forward and see what that looks like.”
Brody went so far as to declare the upcoming season “maybe the best one yet” because of how comfortable the stars have become with each other and the writers knowing the actors more closely. Season three will also see some new additions in recurring roles forSarah Silverman, Andrew Rannells and Keyla Monterroso Mejia, as well as Foster herself taking on a role as Nicole, a terminally single and chaotic mess.
“Because I was originally supposed to be [Bell’s character] Joanne and then I wasn’t, I felt like everyone on the show kept wanting to figure out what I should play. At some point after season one, when I didn’t think of anything for myself, I sort of walked away from it and thought, it’s such a hard job to do, there’s enough to keep me busy. I did not need to add that to my plate,” Foster explained of her mindset while juggling work as a writer and executive producer. “I was never planning on being anything in the show and acting in it. And then this character was written in the writer’s room — nothing to do with me — and when I was like impersonating what I think she should be like, it became kind of clear, OK, I guess I should be playing Nicole.”
However, don’t expect Leighton Meester to make another appearance on the show after her buzzy season two cameo, as Foster confirms she’s not in season three and her husband Brody noted, “It feels sort of one-time-ish but I wouldn’t rule it out. But it doesn’t feel like it’s an integral part of the Noah and Joanne story” in Meester’s role as Bell’s middle school rival.
There are still plenty of guest stars on the wish list though, with Foster giving her top pick to Adam Sandler as one of the “iconic Jews out there that I’d love to get.” Brody echoed, “the bigs — let’s get Adam Sandler, let’s get Barbra Streisand,” as he emphasized, “We have so many good actors pass through, even in the small parts, because we film in L.A., because we’re a show that’s very watched. We really get our pick, a lot of people will come in for even a day or a scene, and so we get great people.”
To round out the dream list, Tohn sees Streisand, Bette Midler, Susie Essman and Fran Drescher all as good options to play her character Esther’s mother, and Simons shouted out Mandy Patinkin and Elliott Gould. The FYC event also included a panel conversation, moderated by Rannells, with Foster and the cast chatting alongside casting director Brett Greenstein, costume designer Negar Ali-Kline and music supervisor Jonathan Leahy.