Kathy Bates Explains Why Director Didn't Cast Her In 'Romantic' Role
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Bates says this director didn't see her "actually kissing a man onscreen."
Kathy Bates says Hollywood didn’t always know what to do with her early in her career.
Though the actor has given us countless moments of joy and occasional jolts of terror, she told Variety on Tuesday that the late director Gary Marshall didn’t exactly see her appeal when casting for the 1991 film adaptation of “Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,” despite her acclaimed performance in the 1987 off-Broadway production.
“He couldn’t make the leap that people would see me onscreen kissing someone,” Bates told the outlet. “Me actually kissing a man onscreen — that would not be romantic.”
Even after her Oscar-winning performance in the 1990 horror film “Misery,” Bates revealed, the offers didn’t exactly pour in.
“It was like a desert,” she said, describing a drought of substantial roles.
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