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Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
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Adam Brody and Kristen Bell Are Back to Work on 'Nobody Wants This' as Season 2 Begins Production
Season 2 of Nobody Wants This is officially in production! On Friday, March 7, Netflix announced in a press release that filming for the hit comedy series starring Adam Brody and Kristen Bell had begun. One of the first stills from the upcoming season shows Brody, 45, and Bell, 44, as Noah and Joanne, respectively, cuddled up on the couch — seemingly giving fans clues about what's happened to the couple since the dramatic ending of season 1. The streamer confirmed that many of the mainstay cast members from season 1, including Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons and Jackie Tohn, will be returning for the second season. The latest installment in the story will also feature appearances from guest stars including Leighton Meester (who is also the real-life wife to Brody) as Abby, Joanne's (Bell) middle school nemesis who is now an Instagram mommy influencer. Related: Nobody Wants This Season 2: All About the Rom-Com Series' Next Chapter (Including a Guest Appearance from One Star's Wife!) Other guests will include Miles Fowler as Lenny, Noah's (Brody) Matzah Ballers teammate who gets set up with Morgan (Lupe), Alex Karpovsky as "Big Noah" who is an "overly confident rabbi" at the temple and Arian Moayed as Dr. Andy, a "charming, highly regarded (particularly by himself) psychotherapist who might just be the perfect match for Morgan," per Netflix. Nobody Wants This is inspired by creator Erin Foster's real-life love story with her husband, Simon Tikham. The series follows Noah, a newly single rabbi, and Joanne, an agnostic dating podcaster, as they attempt to make their relationship work despite major cultural differences. The couple deal with "all of the modern obstacles to love, and their sometimes well-meaning, sometimes sabotaging families," per Netflix. Although an official synopsis for season 2 hasn't been released yet, Brody has teased that he wants to see where Noah and Joanne's relationship is going. 'I think that's what the show can explore,' the O.C. actor told Tudum in February. 'What should he do? What should she do? What version of sacrifice is worth it? What constitutes growth, or what constitutes dimming yourself to be with someone else? It's a sacrifice, but ideally, you grow together and you're better for it — you don't have to [lop] off a limb.' Related: Kristen Bell Reflects on Success of Nobody Wants This and Why the Netflix Rom-Com Came at the 'Right Time' (Exclusive) Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Speaking with Deadline that same month, Brody also said that there is "very little" he's able to share about the upcoming season so far. Although, he did drop a hint about a potential plot line. 'I think repercussions from [Noah] choosing maybe love over work. He's going to grapple with that," he said. Netflix also shared that season 1 of the series was a streaming hit, as the rom-com climbed the charts to its Global English Top 10 TV List and spent 6 weeks there. The series was also viewed 57 million times following its Sept. 26 premiere date through the end of 2024. Season 1 of Nobody Wants This is now streaming on Netflix. Read the original article on People
Los Angeles Times
07-03-2025
- Politics
- Los Angeles Times
Did AI really defend the KKK at the end of my column? Let's discuss
Journalism schools teach that writers should report the news, not be the news. But what happens when one of your articles goes viral — not for its content but rather for how an AI doohickey swallowed up what you wrote and upchucked a controversial summation? Welcome to my week. On Feb. 25, the Times published my columna about the 100th anniversary of when Anaheim voters kicked four Ku Klux Klan members off the City Council. That many readers seethed at my assertion that the lack of attention paid to the anniversary was unsurprising to me since Anaheim is a place that loves to 'celebrate the positive.' More than a few insisted that the KKK in 1920s Orange County wasn't as bad as in the South, which was such an O.C. response that I didn't give it a second thought. No, the real fun started Monday, when the The Times launched Insights. It's an artificial-intelligence-generated tool that reviews the article to affix a ranking on where the piece supposedly lands on the political spectrum. (My Klan piece, for instance? It's apparently 'Left,' which is as surprising a conclusion as the end of the original 'Karate Kid.') This feature also offers a bullet-point summary, alternative viewpoints and relevant links from across the internet of other news articles, columns and reports. Other recent columns of mine got 'Center Left,' 'Center' and even a 'Center Right.' I'm still missing 'Right' on my lotería card. In a letter to readers introducing the feature, L.A. Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong wrote that he believes 'providing more varied viewpoints supports our journalistic mission and will help readers navigate the issues facing this nation.' Well, it didn't take long for one of Mr. Insights', well, insights to make people see red. Linking to articles critical of the KKK, it said: 'Local historical accounts occasionally frame the 1920s Klan as a product of 'white Protestant culture' responding to societal changes rather than an explicitly hate-driven movement, minimizing its ideological threat.' The italics are mine, so put a pin on that phrase because it's important. Soon, the headlines started: It only took a day for L.A. Times' new AI tool to sympathize with the KKK. L.A. Times pulls new AI tool off article after it defends the KKK. The L.A. Times' new AI tool sympathized with the KKK. And on and on it went. Some of the writers of the articles either excised the phrase 'minimizing its ideological threat' or seemed to pretend it didn't exist. But that part of the sentence is crucial: It makes the point that too many people in Orange County have historically minimized the dangers of the KKK. The AI tool may have been guilty of fuzzy and clumsy phrasing, but it did not defend or sympathize with the KKK. Journalists like to complain that critics of their articles don't read past the headline. Well, this was a case of journalists not reading past the first clause of a sentence. In fact, as I pointed out on X, that citation was correct. I was actually shocked AI got such a crucial point right. But I was also annoyed that the two other bullet points — including one that linked to one of my columns in 2018 about the Klan in O.C. — were wildly out of context, but no one else seemed to care. Either way, friends began texting me stories from local and national outlets within hours of my column's appearing online claiming the AI tool used by the Times outright endorsed the KKK. Some readers announced they were canceling their Times subscriptions, saying they didn't want their money to support a publication that, somehow, gave a thumbs-up to the Klan. Insights' rambling, overly long deconstruction of my columna caused some people to conclude it was downplaying the KKK's awfulness. But to proclaim it literally endorsed the hate group? Only one reporter reached out to me as the writer of the column that provoked AI Klan-gate. My opinion would have been given gladly and AI-free to all comers. As a journalist, I'd hope that my contemporaries who reported on the situation would have been a little more precise about describing the language they saw on the feature. The net effect was to make it seem like the AI tool had practically burned a cross to show its support for the KKK on a column that explicitly denounced the Invisible Empire. They were more hung up on The Times' AI tool and not the actual journalism that preceded it, which makes me think they didn't even read my column. Thanks, pals! As for the readers who said that canceling their Times subscriptions was a way to lodge their anger at The Times for using Insights, here's the thing: You have to press a button to trigger the thing. Like the comments section, you can engage with it or not. You can choose just to read what the humans have to say — and criticize or laud them. Why, if you ignore the AI pendejada enough, it could very well pick up its digital football and go home. If there's a silver lining to any of this, it's that I may be a prophet. In December, I predicted that whatever AI program the Los Angeles Times would end up using on its opinion pieces, it would self-immolate the moment it encountered one of mine. That should count as a lotería square, right?
Yahoo
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Adam Brody Welcomes Very Familiar Face To The Cast Of Nobody Wants This Season 2
Nobody Wants This has added some exciting new names to the cast of season two. The Netflix comedy proved to be a huge hit in 2024 thanks in no small part to the on-screen chemistry between its leads, Kristen Bell and Adam Brody. And, as revealed on Thursday evening, Adam will be welcoming a familiar figure to set in the near future. The official Netflix outlet Tudum has shared that the former O.C. star's real-life wife Leighton Meester will be making a guest appearance as Abby, described as 'Joanne's nemesis from middle school' who is now a successful parenting influencer. Everybody Wants This!Leighton Meester will guest star in Nobody Wants This Season 2 playing Kristen Bell's middle school nemesis who Joanne crosses paths with as an adult. — Netflix (@netflix) February 20, 2025 But the former Gossip Girl star isn't the only new addition to the Nobody Wants This cast. Tudum also teased that Miles Fowler will also play a new character, appearing as a love interest for Kristen's character's sister. Nobody Wants This was an immediate hit for Netflix when it premiered in October 2024. The show centres around an agnostic woman who falls for a man she meets at a party without realising he is a Rabbi, and was inspired by creator Erin Foster's experiences of converting to Judaism before marrying her husband. While it received mostly positive reviews, the show was met with some criticism due to the depiction of its Jewish female characters, which generated some debate online. For its second season, it was revealed that Girls producers Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan are joining the behind-the-scenes team of Nobody Wants This as showrunners, with Erin remaining on the creative team as an executive producer. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter after the announcement, Erin shared that certain characters would be developed more in season two, though she maintained this was not in response to any particular criticism. Meanwhile, Adam has also been vocal about one area he'd like to be explored in the new batch of episodes. Nobody Wants This season one is available to stream now on Netflix. This Is The True Story Behind Netflix's Hit Rom-Com Nobody Wants This Thought The Stars Of Nobody Wants This Look Familiar? Here's Where You've Seen The Cast Before Nobody Wants This Creator Responds To Controversy Surrounding The Netflix Rom-Com
Yahoo
04-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Adrien Brody Says Kim Kardashian 'Blew Up' His Social Media After Confusing Him for Adam Brody
Kim Kardashian inadvertently gave Adrien Brody's social media a major overhaul when she confused him for another actor. The Oscar-nominated star of The Brutalist stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday, Feb. 3 and told a hilarious story about what happened when Kardashian, 44, tagged him in an Instagram Stories post related to the Netflix series Nobody Wants This. "Kim Kardashian said, 'I binged four episodes — it's so good — must watch!' [and she tagged] Erin Foster, Kristen Bell, Sara Foster, Adrien Brody, Netflix," Jimmy Fallon said as he held up a screenshot of Kardashian's post. "She blew up my internet," Adrien, 51, said of the accidental mix-up. "My Instagram just went crazy." Related: Adam Brody Says Steamy Kiss with Costar Kristen Bell Was Scripted as the 'Greatest of All Time' (Exclusive) Fallon then asked if the actor gets "confused" for Adam, 45, very often, to which he said that, since Kardashian's post, "a few people" have confused the two actors "more often" than they previously did. "Recently, I was just at dinner with my director of The Brutalist, Brady Corbet, I went to the restroom and this guy came down and he said, 'I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, my wife is much better at this than I am but, are you Adam Brody?'" Adrien recalled. "And I said, 'Uh, Adrien Brody.' And he said, 'Oh yes, yes, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.' And then he proceeded to go into the ladies' room, and I said, 'That's the women's restroom,' and he said, 'Yes I'm so sorry, so sorry.'" Related: Adrien Brody Claims He Wasn't Banned from SNL After Infamous Jamaican Bit But Says He's 'Never Been Invited Back' Getting mistaken for an Oscar winner more frequently is not the only thing that's come out of the smash success of Nobody Wants This for Adam. The O.C. alum also earned a Golden Globe nomination for the show, and he told The Hollywood Reporter, "I've gotten a lot of interesting stuff. My email is fuller than it was." Adam said he's not looking to do anything "that is too similar to the show" when it comes to his next project, but, "Other than that, quality of writing is a precious jewel and anything well-written, anyone would be lucky to do it." He and Bell are also gearing up to reprise their characters for season 2 of the series — which was announced in October. Newcomers Jenni Konner and Bruce Eric Kaplan, both of whom joined as executive producers and showrunners, for season 2, said in a statement at the time that work had already begun on the upcoming episodes, and Kaplan said he was "already having the best time working on it." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Season 1 of Nobody Wants This can be streamed in full on Netflix. Read the original article on People
