Before Kathy Bates agreed to lead CBS’ “Matlock”, she had two requests for
creator Jennie Snyder Urman: “Don’t change a word” of the script and
“Don’t abandon me.”
“Many times when we work on projects, you get the job, and then you don’t
have a relationship with the creator or the producers. And I hate that,”
Bates said, adding that she had thought about going into “semi-retirement”
prior to reading the script. “I’ve always said I felt like a little capsule out in
space in my pod and the people behind the video screen, they’re in their
own bubble. And it makes me feel alone. It makes me feel like a child.”