Kristen Bell on Why Audiences Swoon Over That First ‘Nobody Wants This’ Kiss: ‘Comfort Can Be Incredibly Passionate’

Joanne (Kristen Bell) and Noah (Adam Brody) are back for Season 2 of “Nobody Wants This,” and the show’s cast and producers hint that there will be changes to their relationship after the Season 1 finale.

“Joanne and Noah are now at a place in their relationship for Season 2 where they’re asking each other different questions,” creator and showrunner Erin Foster revealed at the inaugural Televerse event, hosted on Aug. 15 at the J.W. Marriott L.A. Live. “Everyone’s been in the first couple months of a relationship, and everyone’s past the threshold where you ask if you and your partner are going to dinner with each other’s families or if you are going to cohabitate with one another. There’s all of these teeny, tiny things that link you closer to someone else.”

During the panel, actress Jackie Tohn teased what is next in store for her character, Esther, who is married to Noah’s older brother, Sasha (Timothy Simons). “We delve a lot deeper into everybody, because we have more time to do that,” she said. “I think Esther is realizing in Season 2 that she wants to have a good time like Noah and Joanne, and to not have self-imposed bad times.”

“Nobody Wants This” follows Joanne, an agnostic podcast host who finds herself falling in love with Noah, an unconventional rabbi. The two begin to question their growing affection for one another and if they can make romance work between the two. In Season 1’s first kiss scene, Bell and Foster revealed the intimacy behind the kiss and why it went viral online.

“In the moment, it is meant to give the audience the passion of like these two people and their comfort together, because comfort can be incredibly passionate,” said Bell. “It’s a deep, beautiful emotion, and we don’t associate it with kissing very much.”

Added Foster: “I think that as sometimes as women, there’s sort of a universal language that we all know with each other. We have a responsibility when we’re creating something that we are telling the narrative of romance to young women. And a lot of it is, have you know their habits that you sort of don’t want to emulate, and the idea of showing women a healthy relationship. Sometimes as a woman, we want men to talk to us like we’re a little delicate and strong, and to support us.”