Kathy Bates wasn’t about to let a long day of work on “Matlock” get in the way of her Variety interview to grace the cover of our annual pre-Emmy Awards issue.

On the latest episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Michael Schneider, Variety ‘s television editor, details his experience spending a day observing Bates at work on the Paramount Pictures lot where her CBS drama “Matlock” lenses. As the shooting wore on, Schneider admits he began to worry whether he would still have a good amount of time for a conversation about Bates’ long career. He needn’t have worried.

“It was interesting to see that Kathy Bates is still human. She was struggling with a line. It was almost a tongue twister of a line. But it was so sweet to see [‘Matlock’ co-star] Skye Marshall pull her aside, and they rehe

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