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.
Her latest work was in Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret and Netflix’s A Family Affair , opposite Nicole Kidman. More Trending Legendary 70s bassist Herbie Flowers dies aged 86 as tributes flood in Sean Penn, 64, passionately snogs 'new 30-year-old actress girlfriend' Nicole Kidman 'heartbroken' as mum dies just hours before huge career moment Zoe Ball's future on BBC Radio 2 revealed as bosses share update after absence Her co-star Skye praised the veteran actress for her incredible work ethic, as she said: ‘When she gets a script and she reads through it, you will see her challenge the directors, challenge the writers in a very healthy way.’ She added: ‘[Kathy] is an all-around beautiful warrior who is so intuitive, so intelligent and unwilling to tolerate any injustice for anyone.
’ Towards the end of the interview Kathy began to cry, and reflected: ‘I have no right. I see the state of the world, and here I am sitting in a posh restaurant in a posh town with a posh career, going home to a posh house, and what right do I have to cry?’ Got a story? If you’ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.
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