Adam Brody was absent from an event celebrating Nobody Wants This after drama surrounding his public support for Palestine.
Kristen Bell, Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons and Jackie Tohn attended an FYC conversation in Los Angeles on Friday, November 6, alongside co-showrunner Bruce Eric Kaplan. They were joined by costume designer Negar Ali-Kline and music supervisor Manish Raval, but Brody, 46, was noticeably missing.
Attendees were reportedly told Brody is working on a project in the U.K. (Creator Erin Foster and co-showrunner Jenni Konner were also not present at the event, which took place shortly after the show’s fourth season was confirmed.)
Brody won over viewers with his role as “hot rabbi” Noah when Nobody Wants This premiered in 2024. The show follows Noah’s relationship with Joanne (Bell), who is agnostic, and the challenges they face adapting to each other’s lifestyles.
Last month, Brody sparked a conversation after voicing his support for Palestine amid the ongoing conflict with Israel.
“I have spoken a lot about it privately. I haven’t spoken much about it publicly,” he told GQ in October. “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.”
He continued: “It’s awful that it’s taken so much death and misery, but it does feel like it’s reaching a breaking point that it should have a while ago. I’m hopeful that another administration can really do some good and correct some of these policies that are helping that situation be as awful as it is.”
Foster, 44, subsequently spoke out on the “complicated” situation.
“I think our work environment, our set is very similar to dinner tables around the world where people are having debate and discussion and disagreeing,” she said on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. “While I love Adam, I also disagree with him. And that’s OK.”
Foster, who converted to Judaism before marrying music executive Simon Tikhman, reflected on how her experience inspired Nobody Wants This.
“I think that as the creator of the show, all I can say is that I want our Jewish fans to know that I see you and I hear you and I understand how you feel. And the show has always been and always will be a love letter to Judaism,” she explained. “That is why I made this show. It’s because of how beautiful of an experience I’ve had becoming Jewish and being a Jewish person, and sitting here right now at this time in the world where there is almost zero positive representation of Jewish people, I think it’s so important to have that.”
She concluded: “That being said, everyone is entitled to a different opinion than me. I can just tell you what I created this show for, what the intention of the show is.”
Brody’s onscreen mother, Tovah Feldshuh, also shared her thoughts following his comments made headlines.
“To accuse the Jewish people of genocide is wild,” the actress told The New York Post in October. “It’s right out of [Adolf] Hitler’s playbook. You take the victim and you make the victim the perpetrator.”
Feldshuh, 77, later clarified that there were no issues on set. “Tensions are NOT RISING,” she wrote via Threads. “Profound differences of opinion are. Please do not conflate the two — And none of it will be brought to the set. I deeply enjoy filming NWT and hope we are chosen to go on for a fourth season.”
Nobody Wants This is streaming on Netflix.
