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\t\t<\/p>\n Kathy Bates<\/strong><\/a> is revealing what she almost did with her career before landing Matlock<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n The 76-year-old Misery <\/em>actress got candid in conversation with Billy Bob Thornton as part of Variety<\/em>\u2018s Actors on Actors series.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t watch [the original Matlock<\/em>.] Everybody always asked me that \u2014 did I watch the show?\u2026Well, let\u2019s say it was a conscious choice. I watched a couple to see what I could get out of it, but our show is just so different,\u201d she said of landing her latest hit role.<\/p>\n Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI feel like this part was written with me in mind. Jennie Snyder Urman <\/strong>created it. And I\u2019m lucky because I heard, originally, they wanted to make [my character] Andy Griffith<\/strong>\u2019s great-great-granddaughter. So she\u2019d be 30-something. But Jennie<\/strong> took a walk, and it came to her that she wanted to write something about older women and feeling invisible.\u201d<\/p>\n \n