Nobody Wants This cocreator Erin Foster addressed Adam Brody‘s recent show of support for Palestine amid the ongoing Israel conflict.
“You know, it’s complicated,” Foster, 44, said on the upcoming episode of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, according to EW. “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.”
Foster noted that she didn’t have the same beliefs. “While I love Adam, I also disagree with him,” she added. “And that’s OK.”
The executive producer, who converted to Judaism before marrying music executive Simon Tikhman, reflected on the vision she had when creating Nobody Wants This, which follows the love story between agnostic Joanne (Kristen Bell) and unconventional rabbi Noah (Brody).
“I think that 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. And the show has always been and always will be a love letter to Judaism,” Foster explained. “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, and 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.”
She concluded: “That being said, everyone is entitled to a different opinion than me. I can just tell you what I created this show for, what the intention of the show is.”
Brody, 46, recently gave his own opinion on the matter in an interview with GQ, saying, “I have spoken a lot about it privately. I haven’t spoken much about it publicly. Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.”
He continued: “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. I’m hopeful that another administration can really do some good and correct some of these policies that are helping that situation be as awful as it is.”
Brody also elaborated on his approach to discussing politics in the public eye.
“I just answer the questions I’m asked,” he said. “I’m not wearing a pin, so I’m not inviting a certain question, and perhaps I should. I really admire people who do. But 99 percent of what I’m asked about is about the show. I’m not trying to plead ignorance — here we are doing a political interview, so it makes sense that we wade into this territory — but I’ve never ducked a question, really, not a political question anyway.”
