How did Adam Brody get cast in ‘Nobody Wants This’? Creator spills
'Nobody Wants This' creator Erin Foster opened up about the casting process for Adam Brody
Nobody Wants This creator Erin Foster sat down for an interview where she opened up about the casting process for Adam Brody.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, she explained, “As soon as Kristen got cast, she felt really strongly that it should be Adam, but we wanted to audition and see what our options were because we kind of had the pick of the litter,” she said. “We auditioned every Jewish guy in, not even America [but also] from here to Zimbabwe, and none of them felt right. There’s something about the character where he needs to be funny, but he can’t have darkness… He has warmth, and we really didn’t find that combination. So, eventually she was like, ‘I said it should be Adam.’ She was right.”
She admitted that maintaining the authenticity of the main couple’s romance is her first priority, “That was top of mind for me because we watch a lot of rom-coms where you really just can’t picture these two people actually liking each other. Sometimes we get really carried away with formulas of opposites attract, and we take it to such an extreme that you go, ‘These people really would not be able to make it work.’ So I couldn’t make Joanne that wild and crazy, and I couldn’t make Noah too conservative, because they really wouldn’t have anything in common.”
