More Jackie Tohn, Please!

There are some roles that require complete transformation from an actor, and then there are some that feel more like second skin. For Nobody Wants This star Jackie Tohn, Esther Roklov is the latter. “Esther’s dialogue falls freely from my face,” the actress tells me with a chuckle. It’s the end of two long press days, and before she slips into a sheer chocolate-brown The Row dress for the show’s season 2 premiere, Tohn has one last interview—this one. Sitting casually on her hotel couch, legs tucked underneath her, she’s just as you’d expect: warm, funny, and self-deprecating. Her energy is palpable.

Despite its title, everybody, in fact, wanted the Netflix series. Following its premiere last fall, the romantic comedy—which follows Joanne, an agnostic podcaster, and Noah, a newly single rabbi, who fall in love and are forced to navigate their very different lives and meddling families—quickly became a cultural touchpoint. Audiences were obsessed. The storytelling is fresh and wholly relatable, and its ensemble cast, led by Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, is beyond fantastic. Not to mention, the show’s wardrobe, masterfully crafted by Negar Ali Kline, was widely searched on the internet, becoming a phenomenon in fashion circles.