Nicey Nash-Betts has solely ever lived in Los Angeles — and she or he’s happy with that.
“I’m an OG Angeleno,” says the Academy Award-winning actress who’s lived everywhere in the county, from Compton to Palmdale. Once I ask her why she’s stayed, she says, “The weather.” And likewise: “My family is here and I feel like as a whole, people who are from L.A. are a lot more down to earth. It’s the transplants who come here with some weird energy. But the people who are from L.A. are just lovely.”
In Sunday Funday, L.A. folks give us a play-by-play of their very best Sunday round city. Discover concepts and inspiration on the place to go, what to eat and easy methods to take pleasure in life on the weekends.
Beginning Tuesday, Nash-Betts will star in Ryan Murphy’s new Hulu present, “All’s Fair,” which follows a crew of feminine divorce attorneys as they depart their male-dominated agency to launch their very own observe. It’s a task she virtually didn’t take.
“I was just coming off of doing ‘Grotesquerie,’ so I was like, “Ooo. It sounds like it might be a lot work,” says Nash-Betts, whose credit embody “Claws,” “The Rookie: Feds” and “When They See Us.” “So I waited a little bit and then I slipped in at the last minute and was like ‘OK, I’m in!’ “
She joins a star-studded glamorous cast of badass women including Sarah Paulson, Kim Kardashian, Glenn Close, Naomi Watts and Teyana Taylor. What was it like working with them?
“We don’t just genuinely like each other, but we have respect for each other,” Nash-Betts says. “And when you respect somebody’s time, their talent, their effort, you know that you’ll always have one of your sisters to lean on that day even if you’re going through something in your personal life.”
When Nash-Betts isn’t on set, she could be discovered bopping across the metropolis along with her “hersband” singer-actor Jessica Betts, whom she married in 2020, and spending time along with her three grownup youngsters. Her good Sunday in L.A. entails hitting up the farmers market, getting a pair’s therapeutic massage and ending the night time in the identical method she did when she gained her first Emmy in 2024.
This interview has been flippantly edited for size and readability.
7:30 a.m.: A sluggish morning
It depends upon how early I wish to get to the farmers market, so I’ll get up round 7:30 a.m. after which simply sluggish roll the day. Make my partner a cup of espresso. We’re not large eaters within the morning. Sometimes I’ll stand up and make an omelet with all of the issues and a few smothered potatoes, and convey it upstairs on a cart with some juice. Now, I’m telling you the reality. “Baby, am I telling the truth?” [Looks back and screams out to Betts in another room].
9:30 a.m. Get my necessities on the farmers market
I’d seize a bathe and say, “Let’s get dressed and go outside, and see what the world has for us today.” I like to go by the farmers market. It’s the place we get all of our peppers and greens. We just like the eggs, the contemporary pressed juices and we get our canine snacks from there. I wish to go to the farmers market on Saturdays on the Commons in Calabasas, but when I’m occurring a Sunday, it’s the one in Westlake. I simply assume that it’s a one-stop store for the whole lot that we’re searching for and sometimes the distributors are actually sort. I don’t know if that’s as a result of they need you to purchase their stuff or that’s simply who they’re, however both method, I’ll take it.
And once in a while, I’d discover just a little bop, just a little sundress, just a little one thing to throw on, drop the issues again off after which head down into town.
Midday: Stroll across the Grove
If the climate is nice, we’ll take one thing out of the storage that’s a convertible as a result of there’s nothing just like the L.A. sunshine. Then relying on what time we will get spa appointments, we’d go to the Grove first and stroll round. I just like the outlets which might be there. Typically you may get just a little candy deal with whenever you’re strolling round, however you possibly can at all times impromptu resolve you wish to go to the flicks and push your plans just a little later. It’s simply centrally positioned and it has all the good issues that I like.
2 p.m. {Couples} therapeutic massage and a cocktail
Subsequent, we’d head to the 4 Seasons for a pair’s therapeutic massage and a cocktail. Typically we’ll go to the 4 Seasons Westlake. Typically we’ll go to the 4 Seasons on Doheny [Drive], however we wish to get a spa room, which is within the again. It’s like a set with a hearth and a mattress in there. You possibly can loosen up. You’ve gotten your personal personal plunge pool and we get our providers within the suite. We each at all times get deep tissue.
5 p.m.: Thai meals for dinner
Afterward, we’d drive right down to Farmhouse Thai in West Adams as a result of we adore it there and we now have come to like the proprietor. I at all times get the crab fried rice, the entire cripsy fish, the cup of ramen noodles with the quick rib on high and spring rolls. That’s the usual order. But when I don’t exit to dinner, I’ll make crabs each weekend. So generally, my youngsters will come over and eat. If I get to put my eyes on them throughout the weekend, that’s at all times time.
9 p.m.: Skinny dipping and champagne
Once we get again, we’re undoubtedly getting within the pool. Skinny dipping and champagne is how we’re going to finish the day. We do that usually. Even once I gained my Emmy for “Dahmer,” folks requested, “How will you celebrate?” and I mentioned, “Skinny dipping and champagne.” And it simply so occurred, we discovered a lodge downtown that had a full-sized swimming pool contained in the room, so there’s photos on my Instagram of us in that pool, skinny dipping and consuming champagne. I feel that night time, we had been in all probability consuming Perignon.
11 p.m.: Cling within the pool till I get sleepy
If I’ve to stand up early on Monday morning, then I’d attempt to lay down round 11 p.m., but when I don’t should stand up and be wherever, it’ll possibly be round 12:30 or 1 a.m.
