Reno 911!: Miami
Interview: Raineesha Williams (Niecy Nash) on Reno 911!: Miami
“I’m used to the criminals that I’m used to where I’m from and in Miami, baby, these people are, they’re bronzed,” she said. “They’re lubed up. They smell of cocoanut oil. I mean they’re slippery and it’s hard to arrest them let alone you wanna give all of them your phone number.”
The Reno 911 TV show has already made Williams a local celebrity, which aggravates the biggest roadblock to her police work. “Let me tell you, speaking for myself, when you are so beautiful, it's hard. You go to arrest somebody and the first thing, you know, normally people say, ‘What did I do?’ Me, they go, ‘Oh my God, you're so pretty. What did I do?’ You have to answer all these questions about what kind of makeups you use, blah blah blah blah blah, and it's one note all the time.”
While Reno 911 airs on basic cable, the reach of a film will only increase Williams’ recognition on the streets. “My thoughts on becoming more of a celebrity, because I felt like I was already a celebrity, is this year I will now have the opportunity to cast a wider net and therefore find a man who is worthy of me getting my tubes untied. That’s what I’m lookin’ for. I got ‘em tied and then cut and then they burned ‘em a little bit but still they can be put back together.”
Of course, this is all just looking for a silver lining. The Reno cops never wanted to even do a TV show, but they were coerced by 20th Century Fox, and their contracts bound them to the movie.
“It wasn't that we wanted to do anything. When we first signed away our lives, it was after a not of Midori and red bull, okay? You'll sign away your life and the next thing you know, baby, they got you everywhere doing everything and ain't nothin' you could do about it. Everybody get paid but us.”
It’s a real sore spot because Williams believes there is actually an accurate movie to be found in the footage they shot in Miami. “If I had my way and I could re-edit this movie into what I wanted to be, my cousin has one of these editing machines, I would get that guy who does all the scary voices in the movies, [Imitates trailer guy] ‘Seven people. They're cops and here they come.’ You know, the girls would come in, break it down, break it down, break it down, break it down. It would be a completely different movie, completely fabulous if I had my way.”
While Williams tries to figure out which of the EIGHT Reno officers she left out, Reno 911: Miami opens February 23.
For the trailer, stills, poster and more movie info, go to the Reno
911!: Miami Movie Page.
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