For Niecy Nash, the end of ‘Claws’ is just the beginning

It wasn’t until Niecy Nash was 45 that she became a leading lady and was asked to be naked on-screen.

“I said, ‘Well what’s going on? Y’all couldn’t have called me for this when I was in my 20s and everything was sitting where it was supposed to be?’ ” she quips over the phone from her home in Los Angeles. That role, of course, was Desna Simms, the South Florida nail salon owner turned money-laundering queenpin on the TNT dramedy “Claws.”