Kathy Bates and Billy Bob Thornton reveal during Variety's 'Actors on Actors' that they nearly starred in 'Misery' together.

Thornton's revelation comes after three decades of knowing Bates. They first shared the screen in 1998's Primary Colors, the ...

R ob Reiner's Misery is a great movie with a number of fantastic behind-the-scenes tales – including the fact that a ...

I was older and I just felt, ‘This is it, I’m done,'” the actress says of the days before “American Horror Story” and ...

The Oscar-winning actors also discussed the "Landman" star's recent foray into Western television during a wide-ranging ...

Billy Bob Thornton revealed he was cut from the movie Misery, but it was done in a “cool” way. In an interview for Variety, ...

Billy Bob Thornton and Kathy Bates almost crossed paths earlier in their careers — but it wasn't meant to be. The Matlock actress, who played the female lead in Misery and scored an Oscar for ...

Matlock' star Kathy Bates on her desert island shows, how 'Dolores Claiborne' changed a stranger's life and the movie that ...

The Matlock star talks candidly about longevity, mental health, and the decades she spent feeling like she didn’t belong.

"I didn't agree with that at all," Bates said of a change to the script Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years. Her work has previously ...

To hear Bates tell it, you need a robust toolkit to make the part work, and the script is where you start. (Left to right): ...

Though the actor has given us countless moments of joy and occasional jolts of terror, she told Variety on Tuesday that the ...