Nobody Wants This actress Tovah Feldshuh is shutting down claims that tensions are rising among the cast amid recent comments Adam Brody made saying he is in support of “a free Palestine.”
“Tensions are NOT RISING. Profound differences of opinion are. Please do not conflate the two — And none of it will be brought to the set,” she wrote in response to a Threads post made by AzatTV that reads, “Tensions are emerging on the set of the Netflix series Nobody Wants This.”
Feldshuh added, “I deeply enjoy filming [Nobody Wants This] and hope we are chosen to go on for a fourth season.”
In an interview with GQ, Brody said of the war in Gaza, “put me down as thinking it’s a genocide. Put me down as wanting a free Palestine.” He added, “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.”
Feldshuh, who plays the mother of Brody’s character Noah on the Netflix show, told The New York Post of the actor’s comments, “To accuse the Jewish people of genocide is wild.” She added, “It’s right out of Hitler’s playbook. You take the victim and you make the victim the perpetrator.”
The actress said that it “makes a difference to the [Jewish] community,” when asked by the Post if “accusations of genocide are worse when they come from Jewish people themselves.”
“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,” Feldshuh said. “Of course, Israel needs the United States, [but] the United States needs Israel, believe you me.”
Feldshuh also told the outlet, “My job, as Bina but also as Tovah, is to love the people on set at my place of work, to be kind.”
She added, “With the backdrop of global antisemitism, I am thrilled to be chosen to play a Jewish matriarch. Thrilled and proud, and that will never change.”
Erin Foster, creator of Nobody Wants This, has also reacted to Brody’s statement, saying on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast that “it’s complicated.”
“I think our work environment, our set is very similar to dinner tables around the world where people are having debate and discussion and disagreeing,” Foster said. “While I love Adam, I also disagree with him, and that’s okay.”
“I think that as the creator of the show, all I can say is that I want our Jewish fans to know that I see you and I hear you and I understand how you feel,” she continued. “And the show has always been and always will be a love letter to Judaism. That is why I made this show. It’s because of how beautiful of an experience I’ve had becoming Jewish and being a Jewish person, and sitting here right now at this time in the world where there is almost zero positive representation of Jewish people, I think it’s so important to have that.”
“That being said, everyone is entitled to a different opinion than me. I can just tell you what I created this show for, what the intention of the show is,” Foster concluded.
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