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Adam Brody and Kristen Bell's kiss in “Nobody Wants This” is causing a stir on the Internet. Why the stars were “scared” when they read the script.

Adam Brody and Kristen Bell have given the people what they want: a good, old-fashioned romantic comedy with one really good Kiss.

The new series from Netflix Nobody wants that shot to the top of the streaming charts after its release on September 26th and everyone is talking about one particular scene. The show, inspired by creator Erin Foster's life, is about an agnostic podcast host from LA (Bell) who falls in love with a hot, unconventional rabbi (Brody). The actors spoke to Yahoo Entertainment about their unlikely chemistry and the pressure of pulling off such a satisfying kiss on screen.

“I think we were both a little taken aback when we read the script where we had to kiss and it said it was going to be 'the biggest kiss in the world,'” Bell admitted. She and Brody have worked together before (CHiPs, scream 4, House of lies) and they say their friendship improved their chemistry, rather than making these scenes “weird” as some might think.

“I wouldn't say it was weird,” Bell told Yahoo about her friend's kiss.

“I wouldn't say it was weird either,” Brody agreed.

“It was definitely a comfort because… we had worked together in love before. We have enough friends in common and know each other's spouses,” Bell explained, referring to her and Brody's partners Dax Shepard and Leighton Meester. “There’s…a certain amount of comfort, right? Because I can say anything to Adam. I know he can tell me something. There is no strange energy between us.”

“Plus, after you do it the first time or a few times, you’re in the zone,” Brody concluded. “We didn’t do any sex scenes; That’s another problem.”

It didn't take long for the kiss to dominate every corner of the internet. “Kristen Bell & Adam Brody's New Rom-Com Has One of the Greatest Kissing Scenes I've Ever Seen,” read one headline.

Foster was inspired by the characters of Matt Damon and Minnie Driver Hunting for good will when I write about the greatest kiss in the world. (Nobody wants that is loosely based on her conversion to Judaism for husband Simon Tikhman.)

“When they go on their first date and eat hamburgers and french fries and have food on their face, they say, 'Let's do the first kiss. Let's just do it now and get it out of the way.' .' I found it to be a very different kind of first kiss, and it was still so romantic, but chatty and realistic and fun and flirty,” Foster told Entertainment Weekly. “I really wanted to create a moment that gave you those anticipatory, exciting feelings.”

According to social media, mission accomplished as X seems thrilled by the kiss.

Apparently the kiss lived up to its hype in real life too. Bell told TVLine it was the best on-screen kiss she's ever had.

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