By Fred Topel | Image property of 20th Century Fox.
Reno 911!: Miami
Of all the eccentric characters on the Reno police force, Trudy Wiegel says some of the most outlandish, random things. How such a psychological mess can even handle police work is a mystery.
Interview: Trudy Wiegel (Kerri Kenney) on Reno 911!: Miami
“I take a handful of Prozac first thing in the morning and in the afternoon I couple it with some a couple licks of Pro and I throw in a Depakote or two so my level of adrenaline is always on 10,” she revealed.
Reno 911: Miami, the film version of their exploits, puts even more of Wiegel’s idiosyncrasies on display. Luckily for her, the film may not come back to haunt her in Reno.
“Well, the good thing about it in Reno, we don’t get first run movies. We have a very small movie theater. We just got E.T.. I’ll tell you something. He dies at the end and then he comes back to life.”
Still, Wiegel may not be trusted to conceal even those blunders that were not caught on film. "I also killed a turtle but that was just for sport. There's a reason it's not a sport, because it's hard to do, it's very messy."
The trip to Miami sounds like it may have affected Wiegel’s physical health. “I also got crabs. No, I mean it. There was a stand selling crabs and he was a peddler and I bought a crab.”
Guess that turned out okay. Some of the folks Wiegel encountered were not so lucky. “We have this guy Ray at the station who shot his butt off by accident.”
Known for some of the quirky habits, the road trip to Miami only aggravated Wiegel’s conditions. “You think my gas is bad when we're just in the station. Try riding on an econo route bus with me for five days.”
Perhaps it all goes back to her childhood. “I was born with what the doctors thought was a penis. Turns out it was a tail.”
It may not seem like Wiegel is cut out for law enforcement, but the alternatives provided even fewer opportunities. "I started in yogurt sales and I was there for about 45 minutes before they asked me to leave. I wasn’t there long enough to try the yogurts. I took a piece of body hair and I won’t say from where and I put it in one of the cones and I played a game there called ‘find the hair’ and I was trying to do a promotional thing for the owner of the place. They didn’t appreciate it."
While many of her colleagues complain about their portrayal in the film and television show, Wiegel is glad she didn’t have editorial control over the material. “I'm glad we didn't have to edit it because I barely know how to work the f*cking Dell computer we have at the office now. And if we had to use one of those editing machines, I don't think there'd be a movie.”
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