Kathy Bates reveals her plans for retirement after five decades in Hollywood: 'This is my last dance'
Hollywood legend and Oscar winner Kathy Bates has announced her plans to retire.
After five decades dominating Hollywood and following the release of the CBS reboot of Matlock, the 76-year-old has told the New York Times "this is my last dance".
Bates told the publication that she had realised she was ready to call time on her career while shooting an unnamed film.
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The award-winning actress had found herself crying on the couch when she realised that her work had become all-consuming.
"It becomes my life," she confessed to the publication on Sunday. "Sometimes I get jealous of having this talent. Because I can't hold it back, and I just want my life."
After giving the unspecified role everything she had, she revealed her plans to close the curtain on her time in Hollywood with her agent.
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After revealing the plans to retire, she received a script that made her halt things. Getty
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But it was just a few weeks later that she received the script for CBS legal drama – and it intrigued her enough to take on yet another role.
CBS describes Bates' leading role as a "brilliant septuagenarian" who "rejoins the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanour and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within".
The 18-episode series is inspired by the eponymous classic TV series from the 1980s that starred Andy Griffith.
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"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."
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