'Nobody Wants This' Producers Say They Disagreed on How Season 2 Should End (SPOILERS!) | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS! 'Nobody Wants This' creator and executive producer Erin Foster and showrunner and executive producer Jenni Konner spoke to THR all about season two's most shocking moments, including what the future holds for Sasha and Esther, as well as Noah and Joanne. Plus, they revealed the plot point they disagreed on and the scene they had to reshoot after filming had wrapped, just to make sure they got it right. Season two of 'Nobody Wants This' is now streaming on Netflix.

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00:00There was a battle about, do they get engaged?

00:03A long...

00:03Okay, we survived it.

00:05We did, we made it through.

00:06But we weren't on the same side of it.

00:07Yeah.

00:08Hi, I'm Jenny Connor.

00:09I'm Erin Foster.

00:10We are here at the Hollywood Reporter cover shoot for Nobody Wants This Season 2.

00:15Woo!

00:22I definitely never set out to write a rom-com, but once it was absorbed for people as a rom-com,

00:27I think that the romance and the love and the togetherness is a really big part of what

00:33people love and enjoy, and so I'm not making an artistic choice to kill anybody off, you

00:39know, or find out no is hating on her.

00:41Yeah.

00:42Yeah.

00:42Jenny wants to kill everyone off.

00:44I know.

00:44There was a battle about, do they get engaged?

00:47A long...

00:48Okay, we survived it.

00:49We did.

00:49We made it through.

00:50But we weren't on the same side of it.

00:52Yeah.

00:52We were against each other, and one of us won.

00:55And it was Jenny.

00:56Okay, it was Jenny.

00:59But we got through it.

01:00And are you excited now?

01:02And I'm very happy.

01:03I would have been happy either way.

01:05But I'm very happy.

01:06Disagree.

01:07And then the other battle was what to do with Sasha and Morgan's, you know, will they,

01:12won't they?

01:13Is there a romance?

01:14What is it?

01:15Is it a flirtation?

01:16How far does it go?

01:17Does it go anywhere?

01:18Does it go nowhere?

01:19That was something we really stressed about Season 1, and then also Season 2, trying to

01:23figure out how to clean it up properly.

01:24But we also wanted to really keep it grounded and real, so it wasn't a thing that just disappeared

01:31completely, which is why, you know, right at the beginning, Esther drags them into the

01:36bedroom and is like, what's happening?

01:39And we're putting a stop to it, which felt very Esther to us.

01:42In Season 1, it was going to go that, it was going to go further.

01:48And then while we were in the process, it just didn't feel like it was tracking for us.

01:54Also, we really wanted to get Morgan and Sasha to be able to hang out in Season 2.

01:59Yeah.

02:00If they had gone too far or if there was a lot of tension there, then we wouldn't be able

02:04to do that.

02:04The scene where Esther tells Joanne, like, you're Jewish, we shot like a month after

02:11we wrapped or something.

02:13I mean, I had already gone to the Bahamas.

02:14I was like, guys, I'm done.

02:15We did this.

02:16I went to the Bahamas, and then all of a sudden, I'm getting full call.

02:18Peace, peace.

02:19Literally, I was like, I'm on a boat with my family, with my phone turned off, and they're

02:23like, you have to rewrite that scene.

02:25So we shot that a month later, because it just didn't, it was such an important moment,

02:29and it, we just, it wasn't right.

02:32We wanted to get it perfect, and so we shot it at a completely different location a month

02:36later, and it turned out great.

02:38But you would never know that it was shot separately, differently, a month later, and

02:43at a completely different location, and it was perfect.

02:45We really needed to do that.

02:46It turned into a much more emotional scene, and it tracked where they both were, and it

02:54was, we always had the idea that she, Esther, would be the one to kind of pivot Joanne,

03:00but we didn't have such a sweet version.

03:03It was really nice.

03:04We really loved this idea that Esther becomes this person that brings her into the fold,

03:10and welcomes her, and says, you really are one of us.

03:12It felt like she was making herself so clear all season, and we loved this idea, like, Esther

03:18doesn't want to be Esther at Purim, and it was so symbolic that we really felt like,

03:24you know, we all have friends who've been married a long time, we're all married, we're

03:28thinking, we know what it's like for people, when you really get that itch, like there's

03:32something missing, you kind of do have to figure it out on your own a lot of times.

03:37And we loved the idea of Sasha showing up as this really good guy, and being like, I'll

03:42get out of your way so that you can figure that out.

03:45Um, so it was always the goal, but there was some, some people weren't on board and

03:50wanted us to sort of soften it a bit and make it, you know, not final, make it not final

03:56and vague.

03:56And for me personally, I just don't love when I'm watching a TV show and nothing happens.

04:00Like I needed something definitive to happen.

04:03Yes.

04:04And, um, who knows if they'll stay apart, be back together.

04:08Only we know.

04:09Exactly.

04:11There's a lot of happy accidents that happen in the writing, you know, where you, we were

04:15aiming for this thing and then it stood out to us, wait, is this, this is so similar to

04:20the ending of season one, are we just repeating ourselves?

04:22And then we thought, wait a second, no, we're doing it, but it's going to be in the reverse.

04:26She's going to run to him, you know, she's going to be trying to find him.

04:29She has this feeling that, you know, she has this big realization and we really liked the

04:35idea that this would be a surprising, unexpected, I've already been here kind of energy.

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