‘Matlock’ star Kathy Bates is having way too much fun to retire
LA TimesKathy Bates doesn’t like getting older. A decade after losing her daughter to opioid addiction, Bates’ Madeline Kingston reinvents herself as Madeline “Matty” Matlock, a quick-witted septuagenarian who says she is reentering the legal workforce to support herself and her young grandson after her late husband ostensibly gambled away all of their money. “I know that there was some talk of possibly creating this character as a granddaughter of Matlock — someone in her 30s or 40s — so I’m incredibly fortunate that, at 76, for heaven’s sake, I’ve been able to play this role,” Bates says on a recent phone call. I just was so taken aback and disappointed that all the air went out of me.” But when she read “Jane the Virgin” creator Jennie Snyder Urman’s new take on “Matlock,” Bates recognized an invaluable opportunity to examine the cultural invisibility of older women, and she felt acutely drawn to the protagonist’s fight for justice. In 2012, around the time she was diagnosed with breast cancer, Bates learned that NBC executives decided to cancel her show, David E. Kelley’s “Harry’s Law” — even though it was the network’s highest-rated drama series — because its audience skewed significantly older.
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