Kathy Bates Will “Never” Retire Thanks To ‘Matlock’ – Emmys Red Carpet
deadline.comDespite telling the New York Times that CBS’ Matlock is her last dance, Kathy Bates told Deadline tonight on the Emmys red carpet that she will “never” retire.
Clarifying the headlines out there, she told Rosy Cordero tonight, “I was thinking about maybe going into semi-retirement until I got Jennie Urman’s script for Matlock,” said Bates. “I read it and said ‘Oh, yeah, baby, I gotta do this.
It’s amazing.’ It’s not just an episodic, there’s an over-arching mystery that goes through the series. Big twist at the end of the pilot,” adds the Misery Oscar winning Best Actress.
Bates had told the New York Times that she had planned on retiring after a movie shoot went south. “It becomes my life,” she told the NYT of her commitment to her on-screen alter egos and getting projects off the ground, “Sometimes I get jealous of having this talent.
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