‘Nobody Wants This’ Creator Teases “Pivotal & Important” Role Written For Dax Shepard

In latest Nobody Wants This news, Erin Foster is preparing to bring Kristen Bell’s real-life husband into the onscreen family.

Although Netflix has not yet renewed the Jewish romantic-comedy for Season 4, the series creator/executive producer told Dax Shepard that she and the show’s writers have “been writing you into the season,” asking the actor if he would “say yes.”

“I was watching Season 3, which I love, and I jokingly said … ‘I think Season 4, I should come in and f*ck this whole perfect party up,'” joked Shepard on his Armchair Expert podcast as he interviewed Erin and sister/EP Sara Foster.

Erin teased, “We have an idea that was formed a few weeks ago. We put your name on the board, thinking about it. And then today, we were in the room and this idea for you actually pivoted and switched into something bigger.

“And then, what we said was, ‘Well, let’s ask him how many episodes he would actually wanna be in before we make this choice,'” she added. “Because it’s not like you have to be there all season or anything, but it would be pivotal, and an important role. And we felt like it would be a very fun, interesting thing to do.”

Although Shepard has gone without an onscreen acting role since 2020’s Buddy Games, he recently broke his hiatus for a role in the upcoming second season of Apple TV’s Bad Monkey.

“You know what’s funny? If you had asked me last year, I would’ve said no, ’cause I had not acted in six years, and I was very happy to not act. And then Bill Lawrence was in here, and he said, ‘I’m gonna make you act on one of my shows.’ And I was like, ‘I don’t really wanna do it.’ And he said, ‘What if every scene’s with Vince [Vaughn]?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I’ve always wanted to do that,'” he explained.

“So, I just did this, and I loved it. I ended that experience, and I was like, ‘Oh, I’m more open to that than I thought I was,'” added Shepard, to which Foster quipped, “So we’re catching you at the right time.”

In Nobody Wants This, inspired by Foster’s relationship with her music exec husband Simon Tikhman, agnostic podcaster Joanne Williams (Bell) begins an unexpected romance with progressive Rabbi Noah Roklov (Adam Brody), which shakes both their families as Joanne immerses herself in Noah’s culture and decides to convert to Judaism.

While Foster has said she has “more story to tell” in a potential Season 4 of Nobody Wants This, the show has become the subject of discourse since star Adam Brody publicly shared his support for “Free Palestine” amid the Israel-Hamas conflict’s ongoing impact on Gaza.