Kathy Bates has revealed she’s ready to retire after a career spanning five decades. Having recently turned 76, the Misery star plans to step away from the spotlight after her new series Matlock runs its course. The actor has earned an Oscar , two Primetime Emmys and two Golden Globes throughout her incredible career.
Kathy plays Madeline Matlock in a CBS rework of the original Matlock series that ran from 1986 to 1995, starring Andy Griffith. ‘This is my last dance,’ Kathy told the New York Times, as the Titanic star revealed she was planning her exit before the script came her way. ‘It becomes my life.
Sometimes I get jealous of having this talent. Because I can’t hold it back, and I just want my life,’ she explained. Weeks after telling her agent she wanted to retire, they sent her the Matlock pilot script, and she found herself intrigued by the character.
Bates explained that she connected to Madeline Matlock because they both use their work as a conduit for their grief. ‘Maybe on some deep level that’s why I was attracted to this,’ she said. Matlock has an 18-episode green light ahead of its 22 September premiere, and will also include Jason Ritter, Skye P.
Marshall and Beau Bridges. Kathy is also known for her Oscar-winning role as Annie Wilkes in 1990s Misery, about a hermit who kidnaps a novelist. She also starred in TV shows including Six Feet Under, The Office, Two and a Half Men and American Horror Story: Coven, and Disjointed.
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