Ted Danson called Kristen Bell‘s husband, Dax Shepard, after watching her steamy kiss with Adam Brody on Nobody Wants This.
During an interview with Netflix on Wednesday, December 4, Danson, 76, was asked about his favorite scene from any of the platform’s shows, to which he replied, “My favorite Netflix moment is Kristen Bell on Nobody Wants This kissing Adam Brody. It was so real — it freaked me out.”
Danson decided to call Shepard, 49, to share his feelings.
“I said, ‘Bud, can you do something about this? It’s shaking me up. It’s so real looking,'” he quipped. “But anyways, it is not. It is just that they are both brilliant actors.”
The hit TV series, which premiered in September, centered on the unlikely relationship between an outspoken, agnostic woman (played by Bell) and an unconventional rabbi (played by Brody). Nobody Wants This received praise from critics and fans alike for the intense onscreen chemistry displayed between Bell and Brody.
After the show took the internet by storm, Shepard shared his thoughts on his wife’s newest scene partner.
“We watched that scene together, the kissing scene, which I’d argue is the very best kissing scene ever, ever put on film,” Shepard shared at the New Yorker Festival in September. “And my best friend, Aaron, from childhood, he goes, ‘Does she ever kiss you like that?’ No, I didn’t even know she could kiss like that.”
Shepard joked that he had some competition now when it came to his chemistry with Bell, 44, adding, “[It is] not as good as her and Brody.”
Bell also opened up about building an onscreen connection with Brody, 44, who is married to Leighton Meester.
“Even I can acknowledge watching it, like, ‘Whoa, that’s hot,’” she told e-talk before the show’s September premiere. “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.’”
Bell continued: “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.”
Even series creator Erin Foster has weighed in on casting Bell and Brody, telling TV Line, “They just have, like, unreal chemistry. It’s crazy because they’re friends in real life. They don’t have that chemistry off camera. There’s no, like, sexual tension on set, and then the camera goes, and it’s like, ‘Holy s—!’ It’s really there.”
Nobody Wants This is available to stream on Netflix and has been renewed for a second season.
