Kathy Bates Retiring After “Matlock”

After five decades, Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Kathy Bates says she’s retiring from acting. The “Misery,” “Primary Colors” and “Harry’s Law” star tells that her starring role in CBS’ upcoming reboot of “Matlock,” premiering September 22nd, will be “my last dance”. She says she actually was ready to retire earlier, after a film shoot had ‘soured’ for her late last year, but she didn’t say which film.

In January, her agents sent her the script for this reimagining on the classic legal TV drama which was interesting enough for the actress to get onboard. In terms of doing the series, she says: “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.” In the series, Bates plays brilliant septuagenarian Madeline “Matty” Matlock, who, after achieving success in her younger years, decides to rejoin the workforce at a prestigious law firm.



She uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within. Matty works alongside the firm’s younger associates as she endeavors to establish herself in her new high-stakes world. It has an eighteen-episode order and also stars Jason Ritter, Skye P.

Marshall and Beau Bridges..