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How Erin Foster’s Jewish Conversion Led to Netflix’s Nobody Wants This


She spent the past decade turning her Hollywood life into so-so content. Her new rom-com series, with Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, might be different.

Then the pair started, in 2020, the clothing line Favorite Daughter and, in 2021, The World’s First Podcast, in which they candidly talk — and often argue — about everything: postpartum sex, cancel culture, Love Island, Foster’s ancient relationship with Chad Michael Murray, their mixed feelings about former stepmoms. In fact, it was Sara who, in her words, “stalked” Modern Family co-creator Steven Levitan at the members-only club San Vicente Bungalows several years ago to ask him to come onboard as an executive producer of Nobody Wants This, which he did. Foster stresses that her husband’s parents were never unwelcoming, but they were skeptical, especially after she went to synagogue with them for a Rosh Hashanah service and afterward admitted that she “wasn’t that moved.” In fact, she’d begun itching to look at her phone around hour two, which she refrained from mentioning, but still, she says, “I knew immediately I’d made a mistake.” The couple went home and fought.

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