(L to R) Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Noah. Stefania Rosini/Netflix
Adam Brody has been the middle of the Web’s affections harkening again to the times of The O.C., and he’s probably going to remain there.
Brody, 44, will star reverse Kristen Bell in No person Desires This, a romantic comedy collection, dropping on Netflix on September 26. In keeping with an official logline, Bell performs an “outspoken, agnostic girl” named Joanne who meets “unconventional rabbi” Noah (Brody).
Netflix teased the primary take a look at No person Desires This on Thursday, August 29, branding Brody as a “scorching rabbi.”
“Adam Brody scorching rabbi period loading,” a publish on Netflix’s X learn, sharing a clip of Joanne studying that Noah works in a synagogue’s clergy.
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Hours later, the official trailer dropped and, suffice it to say, the web misplaced its thoughts that Brody’s Noah was described as a “scorching rabbi.” (In a single scene, Brody even wore a standard tallit and kippah for a non secular service.)
“Adam Brody romcom collection I’ve DREAMED of days like this,” one fan quipped by way of X.
One other joked, “Give me 14 of those now. Adam Brody, the unique white boy of the month each month. Seth Cohen as a scorching rabbi. I want it now!!!”
Others couldn’t watch for “scorching rabbi season” to start, evaluating it to the success of Fleabag and Andrew Scott’s aptly titled Sizzling Priest.
“Can I simply say it’s been the consideration of a lifetime to behold Adam Brody’s chrismukkah bar mitz-vahkkah to scorching rabbi pipeline,” a social media fan wrote, referring to Brody’s The O.C. position.
No person Desires This was created by Erin Foster, whose personal marriage to Simon Tikhman impressed the script. (Foster, the daughter of David Foster, transformed to Judaism when she married Tikhman in 2019. They welcomed daughter Noa earlier this yr.)
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“This present is predicated on the one good determination I ever made: falling for a pleasant Jewish boy,” Foster, 42, informed Tudum earlier this month. “However I spotted that being blissful is manner tougher than being depressing — there’s nothing to complain about. So, I created this present based mostly on all of the ways in which discovering the best individual will be so onerous.”
(L to R) Kristen Bell as Joanne and Adam Brody as Noah. Courtesy of Netflix
In keeping with Foster, No person Desires This will probably be Brody’s “main man comeback.”
“I feel when you could have that teen heartthrob profession whenever you’re younger, you then turn out to be an grownup who needs to be taken severely,” Foster gushed. “He’s been so cautious with what he’s achieved. For him to really feel like this was his main man comeback onto the scene in TV was an enormous honor for me.”
Brody was apparently so convincing that he made Foster rethink her long-held cynicism about love.
“You don’t should be with the dangerous boy that makes you are feeling like s—t however actually revs your engine, or the great man who’s actually boring,” Foster stated of Brody’s Noah. “You could find each.”
No person Desires This premieres September 26 on Netflix.
