The creator of the hit Netflix comedy Nobody Wants This has responded to star Adam Brody’s recent support of Palestine amid the Israel-Gaza war .
“Everyone is entitled to a different opinion,” Erin Foster said in an interview with the Not Skinny Not Fat podcast when asked about Brody calling for a free Palestine.
“You know, it’s complicated,” said Foster, who also has an acting role in the new season. “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.
“While I love Adam, I also disagree with him. And that’s OK.”
Nobody Wants This, which returns for its third season this week, chronicles the unexpected love story between agnostic podcast host Joanne Williams (Kristen Bell) and rabbi Noah Roklov (Brody).
The story was inspired by Foster’s own real-life love story after she converted to Judaism after meeting her husband.
“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,” Foster said. “The show has always been and always will be a love letter to Judaism. 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.
“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.”
Last month, Brody opened up about his political views for the first time. “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine,” he told GQ . “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.”
Nobody Wants This’s third season sees Joanne and Noah move in together while their siblings continue to look for love. In a four-star review , the Guardian’s Jack Seale said the new episodes will make fans of the show “fall in love with it all over again”.
Foster has often posted about the Israel-Gaza war on social media.
“Nothing that is happening in Israel/Palestine is acceptable or comfortable to look at,” she wrote in 2021. “Innocent lives lost as casualties of war, as well as the atrocious lack of human rights that exist under a Hamas run government.
“There is a chance for peace here, and it involves a two state resolution where both exist next to each other, respecting each other’s beliefs, and sharing the holy land that all three major religions call sacred. Palestinians deserve to live in peace without fear. So do Jews.”
An independent UN inquiry in June found that Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza.
The Guardian has reached out to representatives for Foster, Netflix and Brody for comment.
