Despite previous statements suggesting retirement, actress Kathy Bates is back in action starring in the reboot of the classic legal drama 'Matlock'. Bates revealed that she was initially ready to hang up her acting hat until she read the script for the reboot, which reimagines the protagonist as a gender-flipped attorney named Madeline Matlock.
Stop the presses — Kathy Bates isn't ready to retire after ' Matlock ' like we thought. She was 'one foot out the door' with her acting career until she read showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman's script for the Andy Griffith drama reboot, Bates told ABC's George Pennacchio during a red carpet interview Sunday at the 76th Emmy Awards.
Bates will star as gender-flipped protagonist Madeline Matlock in the reboot, an attorney returning to work at a law firm using 'her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within,' the show's synopsis reads. Co-star Skye P. Marshall said in the same 'ET' interview that she would 'drag out of her house kicking and screaming if she thinks America, or the world, is going to let her retire after 'Matlock.
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