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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