Adam Brody is getting candid on kissing Kristen Bell in their new hit rom-com series “Nobody Wants This.”
In the Netflix show, Bell, 44, plays a sex-positive podcast host named Joanne, who meets and falls for a newly single rabbi, Noah (Brody). The two try to make their relationship work as they navigate their families and cultural drama.
But in real life, Brody, 44, and Bell are good friends, which makes the kissing scenes between the “The O.C.” alum and the “Veronica Mars” star easier.
“I think because we know each other, it’s less strange, as strange as that might sound, “ Brody said while on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Thursday. “I don’t know, I mean, I think there’s some trust there, there’s some familiarity.”
Kimmel, 56, asked the “Jennifer’s Body” actor if he and his wife, Leighton Meester, who share a daughter and a son, find themselves hanging out with “The Good Place” star and her husband, Dax Shepard, who are parents to daughters Lincoln and Delta, more or less since filming.
“That is a good question,” Brody said. “That might be the litmus test. Not really. They live on the east side, I live on the west side. I think that’s fine. But Dax is always like moaning, ‘Oh, I wish you lived on the east side we could hang out more.’”
“Don’t you have 300 cars?” he quipped. “Driving should be fun!”
The final episode ended on a cliffhanger, leaving fans clamoring for a Season 2.
“I think they play it cool,” Brody said about the network’s response to a second season. “We’ll see. I don’t officially know anything, truly, but in my heart of hearts, I feel I know something.”
Meanwhile, Bell also understands why the viewers have gone wild over her on-screen chemistry with Brody.
“Even I can acknowledge watching it, like, ‘Whoa, that’s hot,’” she admitted during a recent eTalk interview. “My husband said the same thing. Like, watching the first episode, he was like, ‘Oh my god, I want you to kiss him so badly.’”
“I’m not trying to be reductive, but I think there’s a math to it. You have two actors that know how to stare dopily into each other’s eyes, and you have to have the confidence to expand that and really sit the anticipatory value before the kiss — which I think is really important.”
Bell confessed, “Whether or not people want to see you end up with someone is a crapshoot, and we just kind of got lightning in a bottle.”
The series creator Erin Foster has also chimed in on the possibility of Joanne and Noah’s love story continuing.
“The conversations have definitely started to happen about a potential Season 2,” she told IndieWire last month. “The story in Season 1 unfolds really slowly. So I think if there is a Season 2 I would want to just kind of pick up where we leave off and continue to take it slow, because I don’t want us to get too far ahead of ourselves.”
“We’re getting a really positive response,” Foster continued. “And so I think the conversations have definitely started to happen about a potential Season 2.”
The 10-episode series is currently streaming on Netflix.
