Erin Foster Reveals the Fun 'Easter Egg' in "Nobody Wants This" Premiere Involving Her Real-Life Mother-in-Law
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10/08/2024 04:25 PM
The 10-episode Netflix series was inspired by Foster's real-life love story with her husband Simon Tikhman
Erin Foster won brownie points with her mother-in-law by including her in Nobody Wants This.
During the Oct. 8 episode of The LadyGang podcast, the show creator, 42, revealed that she let her husband Simon Tikhman's mother make a small cameo early on in the series.
While Tikhman's parents have yet to see the hit Netflix rom-com, she told podcast listeners that she "put a little Easter egg of her in."
"She's in the opening temple scene sitting next to the woman that's playing her. She was really excited. I mean, listen, the truth is there," Foster said, explaining that while the show is inspired by her own love story with Tikhman, she had to create "built-in conflict" in the plotline.
While Joanne (Kristen Bell) is hated by Noah's (Adam Brody) parents, Tikhman's real-life relatives "love" Foster.
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(L) Simon Tikhman and Erin Foster"I'm lovable. I converted to Judaism," the Favorite Daughter designer continued, laughing, "It's like the ultimate way to get your in-laws to love you. And so they're excited, and they're having, like, a viewing party with all their friends, which is really cute."
The 10-episode series, which began streaming on Sept. 26, follows a budding romance between newly single rabbi Noah and sex podcaster Joanne — and a slew of naysayers who claim their relationship won't work.
The show's concept was born in 2019 when Foster, who is the daughter of Grammy-winning producer David Foster, was in the midst of converting to Judaism after meeting Tikhman. The couple first met at a Los Angeles gym in 2018 and got engaged the following year.
During the conversion process, Foster's producing partner and manager suggested she write a show about her experience titled Shiksha (a term generally used by Jewish people to describe a gentile woman), and the concept "clicked," she explained on an episode of her and sister Sara Foster's podcast, The World's First Podcast.
Foster and her husband, Tikhman, went on to wed during a New Year's Eve celebration in 2019 and welcomed their first child, a daughter, in May. And while Tikhman isn't a rabbi and the boatload of conflict main characters Noah and Joanne encounter in the show wasn't true for Foster and her husband, Foster has still described the series as a "love letter" to her marriage.
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Nobody Wants This is available to stream on Netflix.
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