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Kathy Bates Reveals Her Favorite Role (and It’s Not the One You’re Thinking Of)
When you’re in a film adapted from a beloved young adult novel like ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ (April 28), every aspect of the movie has to be just right, so obviously directors turn to Kathy Bates. “I think the heart of acting is dress up...you play dress up and finally this character appears,” Bates told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. She plays Sylvia, Margaret’s grandmother, one of many obstacles Margaret must contend with as she faces puberty, adolescence, religion and discovering her early sexuality in the 1970s. To find Sylvia, Bates remembers something Jessica Tandy once told…
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