Niecy Nash-Betts gets candid on Hollywood sex scenes at 55: Its stressful

 The claws are coming out for Niecy Nash-Betts.The actress, 55, opened up about sex scenes in the entertainment industry, while talking with Helen Mirren, Kathy Bates, Parker Posey, Keri Russell and Cristin Milioti during the Hollywood Reporter’s Drama Actress Roundtable.“Well, I was never the ingénue,” Nash-Betts told the ladies about past roles.“Then, when I turned 45, it was like, ‘And now we want you to be naked.’ You waited until now? I was fine to play the part, but the days that you have to film intimate scenes, it’s stressful.

And I think it’s men who do these call sheets because they put them at night.They think it’s sexy.

No.”When it comes to intimate scenes on camera, the “The Rookie: Feds” actress knows exactly what time of day works.“Let’s do it first thing in the morning, when this man just got out the tub and he’s not smelling like a field mouse,” Nash-Betts explained.“You go through all the heart palpitations, the closed set.

‘Was my side meat a little too jiggly? Are my kibbles and bits covered?’ And then they don’t use it! I put myself out there to be that vulnerable, literally exposed, and you don’t use it? Now I got an attitude.Stuff it back in there somewhere!”Milioti, 39, couldn’t agree more.“I can get a little myopic about it,” the “Black Mirror” star stated.

“I get defensive of the character, and I’m like, ‘Why did they cut that thing that she says that explains this, this and this?’ I forget to zoom out and think about the story as a larger piece.Much later, I can get why something was cut, but in the moment.”The powerhouse group also discussed being typecasted in Hollywood, with Nash-Betts revealing she feels she’s had a variety of different roles throughout her career.

She noted, “I’ve lived a lot of lives as an actor — doing something as loud as ‘Reno 911!,’ and then you slide all the way over and that pendulum hits ‘Jeffrey Dahmer.’ I don’t know w...