Nicey Nash-Betts has solely ever lived in Los Angeles — and he or she’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. After I ask her why she’s stayed, she says, “The climate.” And in addition: “My household is right here and I really feel like as a complete, people who find themselves from L.A. are much more right down to earth. It’s the transplants who come right here with some bizarre power. However the people who find themselves from L.A. are simply pretty.”
In Sunday Funday, L.A. individuals give us a play-by-play of their ideally suited Sunday round city. Discover concepts and inspiration on the place to go, what to eat and methods to take pleasure in life on the weekends.
Beginning Tuesday, Nash-Betts will star in Ryan Murphy’s new Hulu present, “All’s Truthful,” which follows a crew of feminine divorce attorneys as they depart their male-dominated agency to launch their very own observe. It’s a job she nearly didn’t take.
“I used to be simply coming off of doing ‘Grotesquerie,’ so I used to be like, “Ooo. It sounds prefer it could be so much work,” says Nash-Betts, whose credit embrace “Claws,” “The Rookie: Feds” and “When They See Us.” “So I waited just a little bit after which I slipped in on the final minute and was like ‘OK, I’m in!’ “
She joins a star-studded glamorous forged of badass girls together with Sarah Paulson, Kim Kardashian, Glenn Shut, Naomi Watts and Teyana Taylor. What was it like working with them?
“We don’t simply genuinely like one another, however we now have respect for one another,” Nash-Betts says. “And once you respect any individual’s time, their expertise, their effort, you already know that you simply’ll all the time have considered one of your sisters to lean on that day even if you happen to’re going by one thing in your private life.”
When Nash-Betts isn’t on set, she will be discovered bopping across the metropolis together with her “hersband” singer-actor Jessica Betts, whom she married in 2020, and spending time together with her three grownup youngsters. Her good Sunday in L.A. includes hitting up the farmers market, getting a pair’s therapeutic massage and ending the evening in the identical method she did when she gained her first Emmy in 2024.
This interview has been frivolously edited for size and readability.
7:30 a.m.: A sluggish morning
It will depend on how early I need 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 huge eaters within the morning. Often I’ll rise 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. “Child, am I telling the reality?” [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 dress and go outdoors, and see what the world has for us as we speak.” 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 every thing that we’re in search of and usually the distributors are actually variety. 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 every so often, I would 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 the 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 are able to get spa appointments, we would go to the Grove first and stroll round. I just like the outlets which might be there. Generally you would possibly get just a little candy deal with once you’re strolling round, however you possibly can all the time impromptu determine you need to go to the films 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. Generally we’ll go to the 4 Seasons Westlake. Generally 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’ll be able to chill out. You have got your personal non-public plunge pool and we get our companies within the suite. We each all the time 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 find it irresistible there and we now have come to like the proprietor. I all the time get the crab fried rice, the entire cripsy fish, the cup of ramen noodles with the quick rib on prime 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 in the course of the weekend, that’s all the time a great time.
9 p.m.: Skinny dipping and champagne
After 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 typically. Even after I gained my Emmy for “Dahmer,” individuals requested, “How will you have fun?” and I stated, “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 believe that evening, we have been most likely consuming Perignon.
11 p.m.: Cling within the pool till I get sleepy
If I’ve to rise up early on Monday morning, then I would attempt to lay down round 11 p.m., but when I don’t need to rise up and be anyplace, it’ll perhaps be round 12:30 or 1 a.m.
