Kathy Bates Slams Her Own ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ Performance

Looking at Kathy Bates, it’s hard to imagine anything shaking her confidence. The Academy Award-winner can seemingly take on any role with ease, from the timid Evelyn Church in Fried Green Tomatoes, to a controlling matriarch in the Adam Sandler comedy The Waterboy, to the title role in the recent Matlock revival, which recently earned her a Best Actress Emmy nomination. But in a new interview with Variety, Bates reveals that she had “no clue” how to handle herself when she first experienced fame following her breakout role in Misery — a situation that she believes impacted her ability to turn in a good performance in her follow up film, Fried Green Tomatoes.