Leighton Meester and Adam Brody (left); Kristen Bell and Adam Brody in ‘Nobody Wants This’ (right).Photo:Emma McIntyre/Getty; Adam Rose/Netflix
Emma McIntyre/Getty; Adam Rose/Netflix
Get readyKristen Bell—Leighton Meesteris coming for your (her?) man.
The 38-year-old actress will join season 2 ofNobody Wants Thisas a guest star, PEOPLE has confirmed. The role will mark the latest time she and her real-life husbandAdam Brodywill share the screen, following 2023’sRiver Wildand Brody’s previous recurring role on her former ABC sitcomSingle Parents.
She is not the only newcomer to the cast. The outlet also reported that Miles Fowler will be joining as a guest star.
TheBottomsalum will play a potential love interest forJustine Lupe’s character Morgan, and is on Brody’s character’s basketball team, the Matzah Ballers.
Jackie Tohn as Esther, Timothy Simons as Sasha, Kristen Bell as Joanne, Adam Brody as Noah in ‘Nobody Wants This’.Adam Rose/Netflix
Adam Rose/Netflix
The Netflix series released in Septemberto rave reviewsandwas quickly renewed for a second season. Work began on the next installment right away, and filming is set to begin in March, per starJackie Tohn.
It will pick up afterthe season 1 finale left off with Joanne (Bell) and Noah (Brody) at a crossroads in their relationship, as Joanne admitted she’s hesitant to convert to Judaism, which is something of a nonnegotiable for Noah, who is keen to become head rabbi.
Still, the episode ended with the pair kissing, though what’s next for them is unclear.
Meester joining the series is particularly fun giventhe red-hot chemistry between her husband and Bell onscreen— and their first kiss, which Brody, 45, told PEOPLEwas described in the script as “something to the effect of, ‘It’s the greatest of all time.'”
It’s not something that bothers the actress, as she toldAccess Hollywoodshe thinks their headline-making kiss in the series was “great” and she didn’t “mind.”
Brody also made sure to say that his wife, who he married in 2014, “taught” him all he knows. “She gets the good stuff. That’s not even like the A-material,” he teased.
Kristen Bell as Joanne, Adam Brody as Noah in ‘Nobody Wants This’.Stefania Rosini/Netflix
Stefania Rosini/Netflix
Bell and Brody’s chemistry also caught Bell’s husband’s attention. She toldE! Newsthat she thinks Joanne and Noah’s chemistry is “hot” herself, and her husbandDax Shepard"said the same thing."
“Watching the first episode, he was like, ‘Oh my God, I want you to kiss him so badly.'”
The response wasn’t surprising to creatorErin Foster, though. “We knew that was gonna happen because we were on set watching them.We were like, ‘Are they having an affair? This chemistry is insane,'” she toldE! Newsof Bell, 44, and Brody. “Then the cameras turn off and they’re like brother and sister.”
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Nobody Wants Thisis now streaming on Netflix.
source: people.com
