Screen legend Kathy Bates, 75, is ‘ready’ for Kim Kardashian to put her in a SKIMS commercial: ‘I’m waiting’

Kathy Bates revealed that Kim Kardashian once offered to feature her in an ad for the reality star’s shapewear line SKIMS.

However, the collaboration never materialized, so Kathy is now reminding the reality star that she is still willing to model for the brand.

She said People that Kim sent me SKIMS two or three years ago and said she was going to put me in an ad. And so I think: Kim, I’ll wait. I’m ready.’

Kim, 43, launched SKIMS in 2019 and has since enlisted a dizzying array of celebrity spokespeople to help her strengthen the company.

Stars who have promoted SKIMS include Kate Moss, Cardi B, Lana Del Rey, Usher, Brooke Shields, Kim Cattrall, Ice Spice, Patrick Mahomes and Snoop Dogg.

Kim, 43, launched SKIMS in 2019 and has since enlisted a dizzying array of celebrity spokespeople to help her strengthen the company

More recently, Kim played a supporting role in the final season of American Horror Story – a show Kathy has appeared in several times over the past few seasons.

Kim has been widely mocked online for her portrayal of publicist Siobhan Corbyn in the new season Delicate of the anthology series.

However, Kathy said she heard Kim is “doing a great job” on the show – although she “haven’t had a chance to see it” because she was “learning lines” for her own new series.

Over the past few months, Kathy has been busy working on a gender-flipped reboot of the classic ’80s legal series Matlock for CBS.

The original show was a mystery drama starring Andy Griffith as a cantankerous and formidably effective lawyer named Ben Matlock.

Now Kathy, 75, is starring in a new spin-off as Madeline ‘Matty’ Matlock, and this time the storyline has taken on a distinctly comedic twist.

Matty is a woman in her seventies who returns to work as a lawyer and is initially scorned by the younger colleagues in her firm.

However, she soon reveals that she is able to use her innocent looks and sweet old lady act to devastating effect to fool her professional opponents.

More recently, Kim played a supporting role in the final season of American Horror Story – a show Kathy has appeared in several times over the past few seasons (photo 2016)

Kim has been widely mocked online for her portrayal of publicist Siobhan Corbyn in the new season Delicate of the anthology series.

Beau Bridges stars as the head of Matty’s law firm, with Jason Ritter and Skye P. Marshall as his character’s son and daughter-in-law, respectively.

The Matlock reboot was first announced in January last year, and in May it emerged that the pilot had been picked up for a season.

However, a spanner in the works came when the Hollywood strikes rocked the industry and put productions galore on the back burner.

Kathy’s new series managed to survive the ordeal and is now being filmed ahead of its release sometime during the 2024-2025 TV season on CBS.

The original Matlock ran from 1986 to 1995, first on NBC and then on ABC, gaining a devoted viewership along the way.

Andy Griffith helmed the series amid a cast that at various stages included Linda Purl, Julie Sommars, Nancy Stafford and Carol Huston.

Meanwhile, during the original Matlock’s years, Kathy built a career as a formidably respected character actress on Broadway and in Hollywood.

In 1990, Kathy appeared in her Oscar-winning role in Misery, playing the psychotically obsessed fan of a novelist played by James Caan.

She followed up that coup with another critically acclaimed performance in the 1991 drama Fried Green Tomatoes, also during its Matlock run.