{"id":124571,"date":"2024-09-12T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/kathy-bates-clarifies-stance-on-retirement\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T00:01:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:01:36","slug":"kathy-bates-clarifies-stance-on-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/12\/kathy-bates-clarifies-stance-on-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Bates clarifies stance on retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-09-12\" datetime=\"1726099296\" pubdate=\"\">12 September 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/kathy-bates\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,kathy-bates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathy Bates<\/a> hopes to keep working for &#8220;several years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Kathy Bates wants to star in Matlock for a long time<\/p>\n<p>The 76-year-old Hollywood star &#8211; who has earned an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards during her dazzling career &#8211; recently hit the headlines when she stated her new role in &#8216;Matlock&#8217; would be her last acting job, but she&#8217;s now clarified her stance and explained she hopes the show will run for many seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining she wants the programme to continue for &#8220;several years&#8221;, Kathy added to Variety: \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m saying that about doing episodic TV, but this has been so much of a challenge and a delight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatty is certainly my magic carpet right now, and I want her to go sailing on for quite a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Misery&#8217; actress admitted her friends can&#8217;t see her stopping working.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: &#8220;My friends say I\u2019ll probably be like Moli\u00e8re and die in my chair on the stage, because it really is a life force for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite her advancing years, Kathy feels she is in good shape after losing a lot of weight.<\/p>\n<p>\nshe said: \u201cIt\u2019s helped me tremendously that, over the last six or seven years, I\u2019ve lost 100 pounds. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve been this slim since I was in college.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAdmitting she was at her heaviest in 2011&#8217;s &#8216;Harry&#8217;s Law&#8217;, she added: \u201cI had to sit down every moment that I could. It was hard for me to walk. I\u2019m ashamed I let myself get so out of shape, but now I have a tremendous amount of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe veteran actress had declared &#8216;Matlock&#8217; to be her &#8220;last dance&#8221; earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe told The New York Times newspaper: \u201cEverything I\u2019ve prayed for, worked for, clawed my way up for, I am suddenly able to be asked to use all of it. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAnd it\u2019s exhausting.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThis is my last dance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/kathy-bates-clarifies-stance-retirement-1406114.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 September 2024 Kathy Bates hopes to keep working for &#8220;several years&#8221;. Kathy Bates wants to star in Matlock for a long time The 76-year-old Hollywood star &#8211; who has earned an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe Awards during her dazzling career &#8211; recently hit the headlines when she stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9532],"class_list":{"0":"post-124571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-kathy-bates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}