By james art Niecy Nash-Betts looks back at her Renault 911! suit with humor.
The award-winning actress, 54, appeared on the Oct. 30 episode of New heights podcast with Jason and Travis Kelce, during which she began talking about the fake booty she wore while playing Deputy Rainisha Williams on the mockumentary-style sitcom that ran from 2003-2009.
“Can I just ask aboutt Renault 911!? It was Travis and I’s favorite show growing up. You were fantastic. How much fun was working on this show?” asked Jason during a quick Q&A segment.
“It was a lot of fun, great fun. The worst thing about it and the best thing about it was the booty I wore in it,” she recalls, referring to the prosthetic crotch she wore for the series.
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Nash-Betts explained that they took a mold of her real butt and “tripled it up,” which has its pros and cons. “In the winter when we were filming, it was great because I was never cold outside. I was always warm. But in the summer I felt like I was going to die,” she said.
“So you had the BBL [Brazilian butt lift] c Renault 911!” joked Jason, and Nash-Betts agreed, “before it even happened popular right?”
The topic of Raineesha’s backside came up in conversation when Nash-Betts appeared on 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 the women in her own life.
“I didn’t see the women in my family on TV. Now you can buy a face on every corner. Back then it wasn’t popular to have all the… you know what I mean? I’ve been to so many manipulations, it’s like you don’t even understand. They couldn’t get it right because they were building it straight backwards,” she said.
Wanting to look as real as possible, Nash-Betts recalled bringing one of her friends along for a check-up. “She had the natural straw-jamma. I see you have to start at the hips and wrap it around. I got the loot right.’
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Nash-Betts returned to Renault-verse with the revival of the Quibi series in 2020.
The original series that inspired the film Renault 911!: Miami and parodied police officers, ran for six seasons and was led by creators and actors Robert Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon and Kerry Kenny-Silver, who returned to write the show’s new season, Diversity reported.
Cedric Yarbrough, Carlos Alazraqui, Ian Roberts, Joe Lo Truglio and Mary Birdsong also make up the returning cast.
“Coming back, putting on my uniform and reuniting with my friends in an unscripted environment was delicious 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 personally take credit Renault coming back, because all these years when we were off TV, I would constantly email the gang every few months, “Guys, we need to get back together, let’s do it again.” I think I kept putting it in the universe and it manifested itself.