The flirtatious banter between Joanne ( ) and Noah ( ) during Ashley’s (Sherry Cola) dinner party in episode one of immediately sets the tone for the will-they-won’t-they romance that ensues between the agnostic podcaster and the hot rabbi over the 10-episode . It turns out a key piece of what made that scene so pleasing to audiences was completely unscripted. “When Adam went to open the bottle of wine, we discovered in real time that Adam does not know how to open a bottle of wine,” series creator Erin Foster joked at a FYC panel in Los Angeles on Sunday.
“If I was a better actor, I would have learned how to open a bottle of wine before we shot it,” Brody chimed in before Foster praised his and Bell’s ability to capitalize on the moment. “These two stayed in character,” she continued. “They leaned into this moment and it’s so special because it’s totally real and they kept the dialogue going.
When [Adam says], ‘Oh embarrassing thing about me, I was a sommelier,’ that’s all just improv he came up with because he genuinely couldn’t open a bottle of wine.” Added Bell, “That scene was cut because it was originally like seven and a half minutes. We loved it.
We were like, ‘Keep the whole scene,'” she recalled. “It’s lightning in a bottle.” The same could be said of the series as a whole, which quickly found its way to the on Neilsen’s streaming charts the second week after it debuted.
Bell credits a great deal of the show’s draw t.