Kathy Bates has announced her retirement, two weeks before her new show, Matlock, is to be released. Bates, 76, stars as “brilliant septuagenarian” lawyer Madeline “Matty” Matlock, in the reboot of the Eighties and Nineties original, which starred Andy Griffiths. Created by Charmed producer Jennie Snyder Urman, the show also stars Jason Ritter, Skye P Marshall, David Del Rio, and Leah Lewis.
The Academy Award-winning star of 1990 film Misery, told The New York Times she had planned to quit the industry after an aborted movie – that she refuses to name – left her sobbing on her sofa. “Everything I’ve prayed for, worked for, clawed my way up for, I am suddenly able to be asked to use all of it,” she said of her new show. “And it’s exhausting.
This is my last dance.” Bates described her career as: “Pain, pain, pain, pain, pain,” but added, “Do I have the right to feel this pain? When I was given so much?” Her performances in American Horror Story and Two and a Half Men , earned her two Primetime Emmy Awards. Playing nurse Annie Wilkes in Misery won her a Golden Globe award as well as the Oscar for Best Actress, and she won a second Golden Globe for playing Jay Leno’s manager Helen Kushnick in The Late Shift .
“I never really thought about being a movie star,” she said as she revealed she felt unwanted growing up. “I just wanted to be the best I could be.” But, her experience in the industry was not a smooth one, as she admitted feeling l.