For Niecy Nash-Betts, the highlights of her time on Hulu’s All’s Fair is what viewers can’t see.
“My favorite memories are what happened on set but off camera,” the Emmy winner told The Hollywood Reporter on the red carpet at the show’s October premiere in Los Angeles, where she joined co-stars Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, Teyana Taylor and Matthew Noszka. “We’re friends in real life and it happened very fast. When you multiply Ryan Murphy times martinis, it equals friendships. Loose lips after a couple of martinis means we all know each other’s secrets.”
The stacked cast has not been lacking for quality time together, either. After the show’s premiere at the DGA Theater Complex, the All’s Fair team hit the skies for a globe-trotting promotional tour — with red carpet events in New York, London, Paris and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — a tour that was said to be the largest international launch of any show in Hulu’s history. It seems to have paid off, too, as the show emerged with the best start for an original scripted series on the platform in three years and quickly went on to snag a season two renewal.
Glenn Close, Sarah Paulson, Teyana Taylor, Kim Kardashian, Niecy Nash-Betts and naomi Watts at the Paris premiere on Oct. 21.
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So the group chat must be lighting up, right? Yes, but Nash-Betts was quick to say, “You can’t see it.”
“We love our group chats,” continued the veteran actress. “And we actually have two. We have one with Ryan Murphy and another one without Ryan Murphy. When we want to talk about everything cerebral and all of the things we’re feeling and celebrating from the heart, we post in the one with Ryan Murphy. But when we get down to the nitty gritty stuff from the neck down —if you know what I mean — that’s the group chat that he’s not in.”
All’s Fair is now streaming on Hulu.