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Rob Reiner told Kathy Bates she would never win the Oscar for Misery

At the 16th annual TCM Classic Film Festival, Rob Reiner and Kathy Bates celebrated the 35th anniversary of 'Misery' and Bates shared a story of how director Rob Reiner thought she had no shot at winning an Oscar.

In the film, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, Bates stars as Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of romance author Paul Sheldon ( James Caan), who saves him after a car wreck, only to jail and torture him. "You said, 'You can campaign, but you’re not gonna get it,'" Bates told Reiner at the 16th edition of the TCM Classic Film Festival over the weekend. "I said to her, 'You have to trust that you have one of the greatest acting instruments of all time and you can leave that character here at the studio and go home and be yourself, and don’t be worried that you won’t be able to pick it back up again,'" he said.

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