RENO 911! The Hunt for QAnon marks the second feature-length installment in the comedy franchise and sees the Nevada Sheriff's department heading on a cruise. The trip is no vacation, however, as the cruise is hosting a QAnon convention and the officers are undercover in the hopes of finding the leader behind the titular organization.

In time for the film's debut, Screen Rant spoke exclusively with RENO 911! The Hunt for QAnon co-writer and stars Kerri Kenney-Silver, Niecy Nash, Carlos Alazraqui and Ian Roberts to discuss their second feature outing, the improv nature of the show and their love of working together.

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Screen Rant: I'm so happy that RENO 911! is still rolling after coming back with the Quibi season and this special is a lot of fun. How did this one come about?

Kerri Kenney-Silver: We had been shooting the last season of the show and doing it successfully in a lockdown COVID situation and to be honest, we thought, "There must be millions of abandoned cruise ships sitting around right now during this pandemic, why don't we just rent one for, what could they be, $4 and take it to the Bahamas and just like make a movie on it?" Paramount said, "Would you like to do a special," we said, "Yes, we're going to totally do it on this cruise ship to the Bahamas that's $4. Then it turned out they're not $4, so we ended up on the Queen Mary, but it was a bit of a roundabout way, but we're glad it happened.

What was it like for everybody else here to sort of get on that cruise ship and bring these characters back for a feature long special?

Niecy Nash: This group of people will always and forever have me at hello. I don't care what it is. I felt like it's exactly as it should be, when we were not on the air, I took the task to just keep emailing everybody and going, "Let's put the band back together. Let's get back together." I feel like sometimes you can manifest things, so I was so happy to get back in my booty [shorts] and my baby hair.

Carlos Alazraqui: We are going French-Canadian gymnastics, we are doing Le PeTiT Cirque du Soleil Reno and Niecy will be there jumping from the the high tower into water.

Kerri Kenney-Silver: Reno on Ice starring Niecy Nash. Niecy should take full credit, she does get full credit, she is the one who's been up in Tom and Ben and I's [faces] saying, "Poke poke poke?" and here we are.

So then Ian, what was it like for you getting to take part in the first feature-length version for for the group since you came on late in the run?

Ian Roberts: I actually took part in the first feature-length, I was an FBI agent. I was someone who thought they were a bunch of idiots.

In that sense, what was it like being on the on the other side of the idiot line for a film?

Ian Roberts: It was great. I'm kind of of the opinion of Niecy in this is one of my favorite things to do. It's everything I love in acting and nothing I hate. What do I hate is sitting around and waiting for things to get relit and having one line and having to shoot the scene 30 times to get my one line. Instead, if you work, you're in the whole thing, it shoots quick, it's all fun and they're a great bunch of people. I feel so lucky to have gotten into this, I get there and there's no ego, it's really fun, everyone's nice and it's my best job I have.

Kerri Kenney-Silver: And a bigger trailer and better snacks.

Carlos Alazraqui: That was the only thing that hasn't been true so far. [Laughs]

Kerri Kenney and Niecy Nash in Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon

So Kerri, I'll kick my next question to you. When I spoke with everybody else earlier, they were telling me how Paramount was the one who presented you with QAnon for the subject, what that was like for you to have the studio ask for a specific subject in comparison to sort of letting you guys roam free with whatever you wanted?

Kerri Kenney-Silver: I would say the first word that comes to mind is unprecedented. I hadn't heard of that before. "Hey, would you like to do this project for us? Here's the title." It sort of reminded me of like English class, when they would give you a prompt for an essay. My first reaction was like, "Well, that's not going to work. I mean, of course, we'll try it. We'll spend a week in the writers room and see what happens." I would say within 20 minutes, we came to something that we're really happy about and then we became enthusiastic about it and brought it to the group. So it was odd, it was a different way, but I see why they did it. It's definitely a concept you kind of have to jump on and I think I'm really proud of the product.

What was it like for everybody else here to hear about what the subject was going to be and then learn and see the writing as it was unfolding?

Niecy Nash: When we show up, we don't care what it's about and there's not a lot of writing. It's just like, "Go stand over there and say something funny." No matter what they told us to go do, we are going to have a good time doing it, because it's how we wrote. I can say this, one thing I love about this cast is that nobody is pretentious here. We've gone on to all have beautiful careers and beautiful things that we've done, if you see somebody doing something, we'll tweet it out, we'll comment on their page, like I'm so proud of them. I'm so proud of my cast members. When I hear Carlos in a cartoon or see one of my cast members somewhere doing something, I'm like, "We rock." We doing it and we still come back together and love on each other and make funny content for the world and that's a gift.

Carlos Alazraqui: Yeah, I concur with Niecy, it's our favorite dog park, our cast is our favorite dog park.

Ian Roberts: It totally meets my criteria, as I've gotten older, if it's not fun, it's like, why bother? I get tons of auditions, and I'm just like, "No, no, no."

Kerri Kenney-Silver: I go to other shows and everyone has an opinion on the script, everyone has an opinion on this or that scene, this director, this whatever. This truly is the only group that I know that literally on the day, the cast will show up and I feel like Tom and Ben and I could say, "Okay, everyone put on a speedo, we're going to get in this kiddie pool, if you feel like shaving your head in the scene, that's great." I feel like everyone is just great, rolls up their sleeves and just goes for it. I don't know that there's another group of people that that happens with. There's been plenty of chances for people to say no thank you over the 21 years that this show has spanned and I'm just so grateful everyone keeps coming back to play.

Niecy Nash: The other thing that still blows my mind is that there are people in this world, of note, who reach out to us and say, "I want to be on the show."

Kerri Kenney-Silver: Yes, social media has really helped that out a lot, too. But it's important for people to know, not everyone does know yet, that all dialogue is written by the cast. So we may come up with the concept, obviously when it's a feature-length [project], it has to have a beginning, middle and an end more so than the show, which is more like sketches. So we know the idea of what's going to happen, but how we're going to get there, every single word, every single interaction, no idea till we're on set. Every word coming out of every cast members mouth is theirs.

Carlos Alazraqui and Mary Birdsong in Reno 911! The Hunt for QAnon

One of my favorite things about this film was the musical sequence, which I felt was like one of the most grandiose things you guys have done so far in the franchise. What was it like coming up with that and then actually preparing for it?

Kerri Kenney-Silver: I think we liked the idea that there would be something. At the end of the day, we said, "What is the difference between an episode of this show and the special? What is going to elevate it?" So we need to get them out of the sheriff's station, we need to get them out of Reno, first of all, cruise ship felt big, felt feature style. And music elevates it, you don't see music in the show, so that's how it came about, how people felt about doing it, I don't know.

Niecy Nash: Kerri, I was so nervous when I realized that we had to sing, because I'm the one in the group who does not sing anything. I was so nervous, and then you know what came back to me? I said, "Girl, with this cast, you played Madison Square Garden and opened up for Fleetwood Mac."

Kerri Kenney-Silver: We did, for some reason. RENO! Live, we opened up for Fleetwood Mac at Madison Square Garden, that happened.

Niecy Nash: When I remembered that, I was like [singing] "Caribbean Queen!"

Ian Roberts: One thing that was fun for me is that I decided that Jack Declan would get transported by the music and enjoy himself, which is a rare occurrence.

Kerri Kenney-Silver: There is nothing more fun to watch than Declan just being wholesome and happy.

Carlos Alazraqui: And Garcia right by his side, because those are two pretty angry guys, and we're just having such a blast banging on pipes together.

Niecy Nash: Y'all don't do happy. [Chuckles]

It was a nice change of pace to see that. So with Quibi shutting down, you guys had moved to Roku, but I talked with everybody earlier and they said that there is still more in the can so I'm curious when we might be able to start seeing more after this special?

Kerri Kenney-Silver: Soon after the New Year. I don't know if they're announcing the date yet, but you won't have to wait very long. There's so much good stuff coming, I can't wait, sometimes I think about an episode and I go "Oh, people haven't even seen that yet." It's so nice to have all this material for people.

Ian Roberts: There's something Cedric does in that season that's just a tour de force. It could be a special, it could be a half hour, it was so freaking funny. It's literally a one-man show that he does.

Kerri Kenney-Silver: I will say that about a lot of what the cast does in the show. Tom and Ben and I watch hours of this in editing, you guys will do it and then you don't see it till it airs. I laugh out loud every single time, every take, and then then the angst of having to cut things for time, these precious jokes. This group is more talented than you even get to see on screen.

Ian Roberts: When you guys have done the DVDs, do you have tons of extras? I don't think I've watched them.

Kerri Kenney-Silver: Yeah, but they don't do the DVDs so much anymore. In fact, we had outtakes from this movie that we're saying, "Do you guys want the extras from the special?" But there's not a lot of places to put things like that anymore.

Carlos Alazraqui: We are hiring Peter Jackson and a film crew for next season, you're gonna see, it's a great idea.

Kerri Kenney-Silver: Yeah, in like 40 years, we'll unearth all of that material. [Laughs]

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RENO 911! The Hunt for QAnon is now streaming.