Kathy Bates Says She Will Retire After CBS’ ‘Matlock’: “This Is My Last Dance” https://t.co/Qqg40F718j
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Kathy Bates has announced that she will be retiring from acting after her upcoming show Matlock.
Bates revealed that she was ready to retire earlier, after a film shoot had soured for her (she did not specify the production) late last year. However, in January 2024, her agents sent her the script for the procedural, the premise of which — a reimagining on the classic legal TV drama, featuring a septuagenarian righting wrongs — intrigued the actress as a person who has faced injustice earlier in her career, she said.
“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 the series. “And it’s exhausting.”
