![]() Kathy Bates is good at portraying hopelessness. "Her humanness comes from her inmost dreams and hopes, however crazy they may be." "Annie isn't a monster in a horror movie she's a human being who is a psychopath," the Memphis-born actress observes. With the camera angled up at her full lips and chin's roll of flesh, she simply inhabits the character, making her both scary and pitiful. "You did it! You did it! You murdered my Misery!" She smashes the stand - against the wall.īates plays Annie without apparent makeup - no fright wig, no false teeth. Misery Chastain cannot be dead." Then screaming at him frantically she grabs a wooden plant stand and hoists it above his head. "You dirty bird," she croaks at the bedridden Sheldon. "I'm curious to see if people run away from me in the grocery store," Bates says of her first starring screen role. And this stereotype is bound to be reinforced by her latest part, as the psychotic Annie Wilkes in the movie "Misery," directed by Rob Reiner from the novel by Stephen King. ![]() And you think, 'Well, y'know, I 'm a real person.' " She gives a bubbling laugh of embarrassment.Īlmost every one of the important roles taken on by the 42-year-old actress has been a woman who is depressed, eccentric or bizarre. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you. The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. When I was younger it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough for the roles that other young women were being cast in. I never was an ingenue I've always just been a character actor. It was really important to us to give Sheldon and Amy their special moment and their special day, and we felt like that trumped any need for a cliffhanger to lead into next season.'I HAVE ALWAYS HAD A PROBLEM WITH MY weight," Kathy Bates says matter-of-factly. We’ve waited eight years for this wedding. TVLINE | Does the episode end on a cliffhanger? But it was neat, just for us, to have them together. We don’t tend to do any of the fourth-wall-breaking winks. Fans are wondering if there will be any Stand By Me winks. TVLINE | You have Jerry O’Connell and Wil Wheaton in the same episode. I don’t know how we could’ve done the wedding without her. We need you to be part of it.” So even though she was in New York doing, she flew in on Sunday and she was with us on Monday - her one day off. We contacted her a month before we even had a script and said, “This finale is going to be a wedding. TVLINE | You luckily were able to get Laurie Metcalf to return. We would’ve loved to have Christine Baranski back. TVLINE | Fans were also bummed not to see Leonard’s mom Beverly on the guest list. It was Annie. June was terrific, but with Young Sheldon being on and Annie Potts being such a big part of that show it just felt like a different character. TVLINE | Was it recorded by June Squibb or Annie Potts? She had a nice voicemail message that we had written for her and that we recorded and we just didn’t have time to get to it. We had a voice message from Meemaw and we ended up not being able to include it because … Our explanation to ourselves was that Meemaw is in her 90s and too old to travel. ![]() TVLINE | Meemaw was conspicuously missing from the guest list. Now that he’s married, Sheldon’s in-laws are definitely going to be a part of his story moving forward. TVLINE| So we may see her and Teller again?
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