I look in the mirror and I go, “Ooh, she’s fun. It’s funny, people are like, “How are you so confident?” I’m like, “Why are you not? Why don’t you like yourself?” I don’t know. Have you always had that self-assurance about your talent or did you have to learn it navigating the entertainment industry?īYER: I guess I’ve always just been like this. This person’s going to get…” No, you wouldn’t book a thing. There’s no way they walk into an audition room and go, “Well, woe is me. You walk into rooms with people who look identical to you, who might be just as charismatic as you, but you have to have the delusion to be like, “I’m better than every single other person who looks just like me.” Anybody who goes, “No, I can’t believe it,” they’re lying to you. To be an actor, to be a comedian, you have to be at least slightly delusional. Back then, did you see yourself ending up exactly where you are now?īYER: I mean, it sounds, I don’t know, full of myself, but yeah. I love those time references because I was first introduced to you with Girl Code which was nearly 10 years ago. It’s such a good time and the vibes are all there. It was just like hanging out with f-cking friends. Then Erin, we worked together before on a different show. Carl, I improvised with, and then Gracie, I didn’t know Gracie and Justin, but they’re so, so sweet. Echo, who plays my brother, we were on a sketch team out here in LA for three years. The creator is my friend Phil, we were on an improv team together 10 years ago in New York. Have you already started filming the second season of Grand Crew?īYER: We start episode four next week. I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s very, very fun and silly. So we play that game and it tells us what our futures hold, but it’s in this book and then our futures maybe are coming true. The premise is these friends played MASH: Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House. We had a blast, and everyone was amazing. So, I haven’t gotten to see a cut yet because I can’t be trusted. I send people things I shouldn’t send them. I haven’t seen the movie yet because nobody trusts me with anything. What can you tell us about this movie and your character?īYER: It is a silly, funny movie with Jessica Lowe, Harvey Guillen, and Andrew Lewis Caldwell, and then also Nicole Richie‘s in it and she’s fantastic. You also have Cursed Friends coming this weekend aa well. Jen, my makeup artist, does a lot of fun stuff with my makeup. It’s spooky and also fun and within the family. It is Halloween, and we do some crossovers with some Netflix shows. What details can you share about this season of Nailed It?īYER: Well, this season is a spooky-ooky season. It just meant a lot that people recognized it. I stick true to me and I don’t really keep it formal. It was just really special and I don’t really host the way other people host, so it was really special that it was recognized. I’m the fucking best of the best.” No, I’m kidding. People are like, “It’s humbling.” I was like, “This is the exact opposite of humbling. It was like, what? To be nominated with all those people. NICOLE BYER: Well, the first year I was nominated was truly wild. What did it mean to you this year to not only be nominated again for Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Competition Program but also Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special for Nicole Byer: BBW (Big Beautiful Weirdo)? But she managed to carve out time in her schedule to talk to ESSENCE about her Hollywood grind, numerous gigs, and the gratitude she feels for the work she’s able to do.Ĭongratulations on your most recent Emmy nominations. Booked and busy barely scratches the surface when it comes to Byer. And the upcoming second season of Grand Crew which just began filming. There’s also the four podcasts she hosts: Why Won’t You Date Me, Best friends with Sasheer Zamata, Newcomers with Lauren Lapkus, and 90 Day Bae with Marcy Jarreau. Fresh off of her second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Competition Program, as well as a nom for Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special, Byer is back for another season of Nailed It!, which debuted on Netflix October 5, and she’s starring in a new movie on Comedy Central titled Cursed Friends which airs October 8. If you haven’t checked the entertainment forecast lately, things are heating up for Nicole Byer.
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