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Kathy Bates talks "Matlock" role, ageism and her healthy lifestyle: "Every day feels like a miracle."

Emmy and Academy Award-winning actor Kathy Bates told "CBS Mornings" she considered going into semi-retirement before landing on the CBS legal drama "Matlock."

Bates, who said she was considering not taking the role initially, plays a lawyer named Madeline "Matty" Matlock. "At first I thought this was just going to be another episodic, but the twist at the end where Mattie goes around the corner and gets into a chauffeur-driven car and drives up to the Westchester and you realize that she's there undercover to actually get justice for her daughter who died of opioids." She previously worked on Hearst Television's National Desk and as a local TV reporter in Pennsylvania and Virginia.

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