I Genuinely Can't Watch The First Kiss Scene In "Nobody Wants This" The Same Way Again After Reading These Facts From Filming

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The episode is titled "A Shiksa Walks Into a Temple" and was directed by Greg Mottola and written by series creator Erin Foster.

She recalled the moment to MTV, saying, "And I remember audibly hearing all of the women, and some men, at video village, when he did it, and just kind of held my face, go— [gasps]."

He told Harper's Bazaar, "There also just happened to be paparazzi right there too, kind of getting it all. That was also a little disconcerting. But to me, all that really meant was, 'just take your time.' That’s it."

Speaking about filming the moment, Adam told the LA Times, "What was somewhat surreal to me was walking down Vermont Avenue for the kiss scene. Just having spent so much of my 20s on that street, so now to be on it thinking, 'If you knew you’d be back here filming a series and doing a walk and talk down the street of your youth'— that was a surreal moment that was cool."

She explained to TVLine, "The actual lip lock wasn't nearly as important as all of the elements that led up to it. And we wanted to extend that for as long as we possibly could because, I think, we were all in agreement that, like, yes, once you're watching someone kiss, they're just kissing, but it's all the tiny things that lead up. It's the eye contact. It's the hands on the face. It's when you blink. It's when you breathe. It's how your bodies are touching. It's how your shoulders are touching."

"It is the anticipation that you're letting the audience live through that builds," Kristen explained to MTV. "And we just took our time."

She continued, telling TVLine, "It's so sexy because you are this sweet guy, and you're emotionally available, and you're kind, and you need to be able to say to her, 'Okay, you want me to kiss you? Put your shit down. I'm about to give you the best fucking kiss of your life.'"

Erin added, "It was really important to me. And, I, like, basically made him do it."

Adam continued, telling MTV, "And I think it's a nice counterpoint to the very nice but perhaps getting a little arch version of the, like, they slam together all of a sudden."

Kristen explained to Harper's Bazaar, "We [did] a couple of takes where one of us was like, 'Let’s just make it doubly as long — not the actual kiss, but the lead-up.' Like, 'Let’s just stretch out staring at each other for as long as we possibly can before we feel like we really should have wrapped already.'"

He continued, telling Harper's Bazaar, "That, to me, feels so organic, true to life — the first time you’re making out with somebody, and it’s so great, and you don’t want to say goodbye, and it’s like you’re kissing until the last second."

"You don't know it when you're in it, I guess," Kristen explained when discussing if she and Adam knew this would be another iconic kiss the two would be part of, referencing Summer and Seth's Spider-Man kiss in The O.C. and Veronica and Logan's first kiss in Veronica Mars. 

She continued, saying, "You know it when you watch it. And I can sort of take myself out of it and go, like, Oh yeah. That was a good one or Oop, you missed."

"I knew how talented and how fun she is but it wasn't until I saw the first episode shortly thereafter that I, like, saw the chemistry," Adam told TVLine.

Kristen added, "I knew we would have [chemistry] because I knew Adam can look longingly into someone's eyes and really just let you revel in that."

"Like, it was infecting him," Kristen told TVLine. "And I was like, Oh, we've done something really special."