Kathy Bates Salutes Her ‘Matlock’ Team — ‘First, Last, and Always, I Am a Soldier of the Cinema’

Kathy Bates Salutes Her ‘Matlock’ Team — ‘First, Last, and Always, I Am a Soldier of the Cinema’

Kathy Bates is still relatively new to leading a major network juggernaut, but at IndieWire Honors, the “Matlock” star declared herself part of Hollywood’s “old guard.” Surrounded by friends and collaborators from the CBS legal drama, IndieWire’s Vanguard award winner began her acceptance speech on June 5 by reflecting on the definition of the accolade. “I looked up the word ‘vanguard’ and it means ‘a group of people leading the way in new devel…