Kathy Bates says after Matlock reboot, she’ll join Matlock viewers in retirement
in a bar last night. The sound wasn’t on, but I think I got the gist of it.”) We’re talking about TV’s newis an “old TV show,” and Bates plays Madeline “Matty” Matlock, a “brilliant septuagenarian” returning to law firm after decades on the sidelines. However, if a new profile inFollowing a disastrous, aborted production, which Bates refused to name, the actor called her representatives and told them it was time to pack it in.
Announcing her retirement two weeks before the show premieres, Bates could be on television for the next decade ifLuckily, Bates has found the role of beacon of fairness and justice in an overwhelmingly broken legal system invigorating. “Everything I’ve prayed for, worked for, clawed my way up for, I am suddenly able to be asked to use all of it, and it’s exhausting,” she toldof her experience taking on the role that gave Andy Griffith’s career a third act in the ’80s and ’90s.
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