‘Nobody Wants This’ Ups Jackie Tohn To Series Regular For Season 2
We’ll be seeing more of Esther Roklov in the upcoming second season of Nobody Wants This. Jackie Tohn, who recurred heavily as the character in Season 1 has been promoted to series regular for Season 2, Deadline has confirmed.
Esther is the sister-in-law of Adam Brody’s character Rabbi Noah Roklov, and the wife of Timothy Simons’ Sasha. Esther did not shy away from her disapproval after Noah began dating the non-Jewish Joanne, played by Kristin Bell. After becoming a bit friendlier with Joanne, she declared in the season one finale that both Joanne and her sister Morgan (Justine Lupe) needed to go after Morgan became a bit too friendly with her husband Sasha.
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In Nobody Wants This, an agnostic podcast host and an unconventional rabbi on the rebound walk into a party. When they walk out — together — the unlikely pair, Joanne (Bell) and Noah (Brody), can tell there is something between them. But also potentially between them, with their differing outlooks on life, all of the modern obstacles to love, and their sometimes well-meaning, sometimes sabotaging families — including her sister Morgan (Justine Lupe) and brother Sasha (Simons).
The cast also includes Stephanie Faracy, Tovah Feldshuh, Paul Ben-Victor, Michael Hitchcock, Sherry Cola, Shiloh Bearman and Emily Arlook. The series is produced for Netflix by 20th Television in association with Steven Levitan Productions.
Tohn will next be seen on the film side in Jewish summer camp comedy The Floaters and in Kestrin Pantera’s upcoming as-yet untitled indie comedy.
Deadline’s sister pub TVLine first reported Tohn’s promotion.
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