, returning just days before the Academy Awards. When we met in June, she had just finished filmingFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop CaféThe Grandma PlaysMICHAEL LASSELL: You still look just like Kathy Bates.BATES: The men’s-wardrobe supervisor did… my sister, my brother-in-law. But I thought that was just family talk.knew it was a tremendous movie for me, because how many pictures are there where a character woman gets to play the lead? I was looking aton TV this morning.
BATES: I don’t think she does, because I think she makes Paul [Sheldon, played by James Caan] fight to the very last ounce for what he wants and what he believes. On one level, it was like he met the devil. I prefer to think of it in terms of my response to the novel: he was reborn. In the book, Paul Sheldon begins unconscious. And Stephen King refers to Annie Wilkes as this African goddess.
LASSELL: I’m not trying to put you on the spot, but you’re a very feminine and very attractive woman, whatever Hollywood may say about your casting category. Does it make you uncomfortable to talk about yourself?
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