![]() RELATED: Bates Motel: Get your exclusive first look at Rihanna Then, as we developed the story, it needed to be a larger part and we were like, “Rihanna’s not going to be able to have time to do that.” We reached out to her anyway and got on the phone with her and she was actually incredibly excited about it and wanted to do it and that’s how it started. Carlton had the idea of reaching out to her to do a cameo to play Marion Crane. In the interview, she said Bates Motel was one of her favorite shows. An article came out, an interview, I think it was in Vanity Fair, with Rihanna, who Carlton and I are both huge fans of. We’d always known we wanted to converge Psycho with Bates Motel, to some extent, in the storytelling of the last season, so it had been in our head, Marion Crane and who Marion Crane was. We knew Marion Crane was going to be a part of the storytelling for quite a while. How did Rihanna’s casting as Marion Crane come together? He still has the survival instinct of, “I’m gonna make this work,” which is great. He’s definitely a more complex, darker, more fragile version of himself than we saw two years ago. You can imagine the toll that would take on you physically and emotionally. He’s deeper down the rabbit hole, he’s more fragile, he’s like a little kid that’s been left alone to take care of himself for two years, and is doing his best to conjure up this world that will keep him afloat. How different is Norman this year? With Norma gone, is there no one who can stop him? Obviously Max, Vera, Freddie, they all balance the humor really well. The reality of it - the arch version of it is he’s crazy and he misses his mother, but when you imagine day-to-day life and what that means, it definitely lends itself to a certain humor that the show balances really well. Also because on some level, he’s crazy and it’s an absurd situation, it just lends itself to dark comedy. It’s definitely darker, and because it is so tragic, the dark humor comes out more this season. How do you think Norma’s death changes the tone of Bates Motel in season 5? RELATED: Hear more of the latest TV news from this week It’s a real interesting character and Vera is amazing as always. Mother is such a fun character because she has the humanity of Norma, but she can seamlessly slide into complete practicality and violence. So that was actually a really cool part of breaking the stories and the writing this year was finding that. She’s a very real character and she’s very present, and that was always a delightful challenge to write a fictional character - fictional in the sense that it’s fictional within the fiction - to write a fictional character that people would feel was real and would start believing in and caring about, because you want to be on the ride with Norman. The show is about Norman living with his mother. He’s doing a good job of covering.Ĭan you talk about how Norma lives on through her son this year, and what role Vera is going to play? We know a dead one, but… ![]() Norman is in a further stage of where we left him at the end of last season, where he’s living in multiple realities and functioning - at the moment - but on a deep level that he’s not even conscious of. He obviously is going to get pulled back in. No one gets away clean from a dysfunctional family. Dylan is trying to live a normal and not dysfunctional life, but it’s very hard to walk away. ![]() He’s on a very interesting journey because last season he was so guarded, so closed up, finally let his guard down, and then got completely sucker punched by Norma’s death, so he’s in a super intense dark place. Romero is dealing with the fallout of the legal problems he got into at the end of the last season and dealing, of course, with the death of the woman he loved. KERRY EHRIN: It’s about 18 months after Norma’s death and it picks up with everybody trying to live their life, but obviously Dylan still doesn’t know that Norma has died. Pair that with the introduction of Marion Crane (Rihanna), the character famously brought to life by Janet Leigh in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 thriller, and Bates Motel is on runaway train toward its Psycho destiny.īut will Bates stay true to Hitchcock? Or does the tale of Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) have one last twist - like seeing his death over his incarceration? EW turned to showrunner Kerry Ehrin to get the scoop on what’s in store.ĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What can you say of where the new season picks up? Heading into its fifth and final season, the A&E drama has taken a giant leap toward the source material, closing last season with the death of Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga).
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