ADAM'S COMING OF AGE!

ADAM BRODY IS BACK AND BETTER (AND HOTTER!) THAN EVER IN A NEW NETFLIX ROM-COM THAT SHOWCASES HIS SIGNATURE SWEET-GUY SWAGGER.

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WHEN Kristen Bell read the script for Nobody Wants This, the new Netflix series in which she plays a feisty agnostic podcaster who falls in love with a handsome and endearing “Hot Rabbi,” she knew exactly who she wanted for the part of the male lead. “I was like, ‘There’s only one person who can pull off this level of charm and that’s Adam Brody,’” she said during a recent morning show appearance. “I pushed for him from the beginning.”

Her casting call couldn’t have been more perfect. Since the show’s Sept. 26 premiere, Adam has set the internet ablaze thanks to his sweet and funny turn as Noah Roklov. (His steamy onscreen kiss with Kristen has gone viral, and fans of the rom-com are clamoring for a second season.) While the 44-year-old — best known for playing high school nerd Seth Cohen on the teen soap The O.C. in the early 2000s — knew Nobody Wants This had potential to be a hit, he had no idea it would spark a full-blown Brodyaissance. “Adam never expected to be such a fan favorite at this point in his life,” a source tells