Niecy Nash-Betts looks back at her Renault 911! costume with humor.
The award-winning actress, 54, appeared in one Episode 30 October of New Heights podcast with Jason and Travis Kelce, during which she opened up about the fake booty she wore while playing deputy Raineesha Williams on the sitcom, which ran from 2003-2009.
“I can ask aboutReno 911!? This was Travis and I’s favorite show growing up. You were fantastic. How fun was it to work on that show?’ Jason asked during a rapid-fire Q&A segment.
“It was a lot of fun, a lot of fun. The worst thing about it and the best thing about it was the booty I was wearing in it,” she recalls, referring to the prosthetic bun she wore for the series.
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Nash-Betts explained that they took a mold of her real butt and “enlarged it three times”, which had its pros and cons. “In the winter when we shot it was great because I was never cold outside. I was always hot. But in the summer, I felt like I was ready to die,” he said.
“So you have the BBL [Brazilian butt lift] in Renault 911!” joked Jason, with Nash-Bets agreeing, “before it’s even popular right;”
The subject of Raineesha’s rear end came up for discussion when Nash-Betts appeared Conan O’Brien needs a friend podcast in January. When asked why it was her idea to wear an artificial butt, she said she wanted her character to look like real-life women.
“I didn’t see the women in my family on TV. Now, you can buy a butt on every corner. Back then, it wasn’t popular to have all the… you know what I mean? I went to so many booty fittings, you don’t even understand. They couldn’t do it right because they were building it straight up,” he said.
Wanting to get the look as real as possible, Nash-Betts recalled bringing in one of her friends for a fitting. “He had the natural slamma-jamma. I’m like, you see you have to start at the hips and wrap it around. I got the booty right.”
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Nash-Betts returned to Reno-verse with the revival of the series on Quibi in 2020.
The original series inspired the film Reno 911!: Miami and parodied cops, ran for six seasons and was led by creators and cast members Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon and Kerri Kenney-Silver, who returned to write the show’s new season, Variety was mentioned.
Cedric Yarbrough, Carlos Alazraqui, Ian Roberts, Joe Lo Truglio and Mary Birdsong also made up the returning cast.
“To come back and put on my uniform and be with my friends again in an unscripted environment was great for me. It was like no time had passed,” Nash-Betts told PEOPLE at the time.
“I don’t care what you hear on the streets, I’m taking it on myself Reno I’m coming back because all these years that we’ve been off TV, I’ve been emailing the gang constantly every couple of months, “Guys, we need to get back together, let’s do it again.” I think I just kept putting it out into the universe and it manifested.”
