'Nobody Wants This’' Sasha Actor Timothy Simons Didn’t Let His On-Screen Wife See His ‘7 Rings’ Dance Until They Filmed It, And The Story Behind It Is A+

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Spoilers for Nobody Wants This Season 2, Episode 4 are ahead! If you haven’t seen the new season yet, you can stream it with a Netflix subscription.  In the “Valentine’s Day” episode of Nobody Wants This, there were a lot of gifts being given. However, I think the best one had to be Sasha’s dance for Esther. Timothy Simons’ character busted a move for his wife to Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings,” and it was equal parts funny and adorable. So, when I interviewed Simons and Jackie Tohn, who plays his wife, about the new episodes that just dropped on the 2025 TV schedule, I had to ask for the story behind crafting this wonderful moment.

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00:00timothy i want to start with the seven rings dance what went into rehearsing that and what

00:04was it like to perform it on on set i i i they asked if i wanted a couple rehearsals and i said

00:11you gotta you gotta bump those numbers up those are rookie numbers uh it's gonna take more than

00:17that even for me to get 16 bars i don't i'm not a dancer i've always been a little self-conscious

00:23about dancing and it was kind of fun to like you know there was a guy who's choreographing it he

00:28was great very patient with me and i felt really confident going in to when i was actually going to

00:35film it and then when we actually filmed it and the entire crew was there and i feel like kb had

00:41just stopped by to see how it was going to go that's when i was like oh no and i like kind of

00:47collapsed like a house of cards for a minute i did intentionally hold jackie from seeing it until we

00:53were rolling just because i thought that would be fun for just jackie herself to see it for the

00:58first time to see what came out of that it worked because then they pointed a camera at me and my real

01:03reaction was esther's reaction lots of jumping up and down screaming it just was i was so excited i have

01:11to say i did not see it coming like i didn't think it was going to be a shit show but i didn't think it

01:15it was going to be like choreo choreo

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