NEW YORK — Niecy Nash-Betts is about to answer a question about the arc of her career when something across the table distracts her.
"Hold on one sec," she says, as wife Jessica Betts cuts off a lamb chop that's pink on the inside, despite ordering hers medium well. "Do you need that cooked a little more?"
Nash-Betts beckons to the waiter and politely sends the meat back to the kitchen, just one of several occasions on which the actor-producer, glammed up in a bright coral dress for a talk show appearance earlier in the day, checks in on Betts, who sits next to her, exuding quiet charisma. (At one point, Betts pulls up a picture of Michael Jae Betts, the maltipoo Nash-Betts gave her for their recent anniversary — and who, like Betts, was born on Juneteenth.)
