Niecy Nash-Betts is trying again on her Reno 911! costume with humor.
The award-winning actress, 54, appeared on an Oct. 30 episode of the New Heights podcast with Jason and Travis Kelce, throughout which she acquired to speaking concerning the pretend booty she wore whereas enjoying Deputy Raineesha Williams on the mockumentary-style sitcom, which ran from 2003-2009.
“Can I simply ask about Reno 911!? That was Travis and I’s favourite present rising up. You have been incredible. How enjoyable was it engaged on that present?” Jason requested throughout a rapid-fire Q&A phase.
“It was lots of enjoyable, nice enjoyable. The worst factor about it and the very best factor about it was the booty that I wore in it,” she recalled, referencing the prosthetic rump she wore for the collection.
Nash-Betts defined that they took a mildew of her actual butt and “magnified it 3 times,” which had its execs and cons. “Within the winter once we shot it was nice as a result of I used to be by no means chilly exterior. I used to be all the time heat. However within the summertime, I felt like I used to be about to die,” she mentioned.
“So that you had the BBL [Brazilian butt lift] in Reno 911!,” Jason joked, with Nash-Betts agreeing, “earlier than it was even common proper?”
The subject of Raineesha’s rear finish got here up in dialog when Nash-Betts appeared on the Conan O’Brien Wants a Buddy podcast in January. When requested why it was her thought to put on a synthetic butt, she mentioned that she wished her character to seem like the ladies in her personal life.
“The ladies in my household, I didn’t see them on TV. Now, you should purchase a butt on each nook. Then, it wasn’t common to have all the… what I imply? I went to so many booty fittings, such as you don’t even perceive. They could not get it proper as a result of they have been constructing it straight again,” she mentioned.
Desirous to get the look as actual as doable, Nash-Betts recalled bringing considered one of her buddies in for a becoming. “She had the pure slamma-jamma. I’m like, you see it’s important to begin from the hips and wrap it round. I acquired the booty proper.”
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Nash-Betts returned to the Reno-verse with the revival of the collection on Quibi in 2020.
The unique collection, impressed the movie Reno 911!: Miami and parodied Cops, ran for six seasons and was led by creators and solid members Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon and Kerri Kenney-Silver, who returned to write down the present’s new season, Selection reported.
Cedric Yarbrough, Carlos Alazraqui, Ian Roberts, Joe Lo Truglio, and Mary Birdsong additionally made up the returning solid.
“To return again and placed on my uniform and get again along with my buddies in an unscripted atmosphere was scrumptious to me. It was like no time handed,” Nash-Betts informed ipromiseyoumedia on the time.
“I do not care what you hear on the streets, I single-handedly take credit score for Reno coming again as a result of for all of those years we’ve been off tv, I continuously each couple of months will e-mail the gang, ‘Guys, we should always get again collectively, let’s do it once more.’ I believe I stored placing it within the universe and it manifested.”
