Nobody Wants This star Tovah Feldshuh is addressing rampant speculation regarding the cast’s behind-the-scenes dynamics amid their differing opinions over the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
“Tensions are NOT RISING. Profound differences of opinion are,” Feldshuh, 77, wrote via Threads on Friday, October 30, addressing rumors the cast is feuding. “Please do not conflate the two — And none of it will be brought to the set.”
She continued, “I deeply enjoy filming NWT and hope we are chosen to go on for a fourth season.”
Feldshuh stars as Bina, the mother of rabbi Noah (Adam Brody), on all three seasons of the hit Netflix romantic comedy. The series, cocreated by sisters Erin Foster and Sara Foster, chronicles the interfaith relationship between Noah and agnostic podcaster Joanne (Kristen Bell). (A fourth season has not been greenlit at the time of publication.)
Before season 3 premiered earlier this month, Brody, 46, made a rare comment about his thoughts on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
“I have spoken a lot about it privately. I haven’t spoken much about it publicly,” the O.C. alum told GQ in a September profile. “Put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.”
He continued, “It’s awful that it’s taken so much death and misery, but it does feel like it’s reaching a breaking point that it should have a while ago. I’m hopeful that another administration can really do some good and correct some of these policies that are helping that situation be as awful as it is.”
Feldshuh, for her part, staunchly disagreed with her TV son.
“To accuse the Jewish people of genocide is wild,” she told the New York Post earlier this month. “It’s right out of [Adolf] Hitler’s playbook. You take the victim and you make the victim the perpetrator. [It] makes a difference to the [Jewish] community. I believe that the perseverance of the existence of the state of Israel is crucial to the well-being of the democratic world and of the free world. Of course, Israel needs the United States, [but] the United States needs Israel, believe you me.”
Feldshuh, who didn’t mention Brody by name during her Post interview, further stated that no political conversations had taken place on the set of Nobody Wants This.
“My job, as Bina but also as Tovah, is to love the people on set at my place of work, to be kind,” she said, noting she will “switch channels” from advocacy in order to “do [her] job.”
