‘Bates Motel’: Freddie Highmore Reveals Things He’ll Miss The Most After The Show Ends

Freddie Highmore admitted that he will miss playing huge pivotal scenes with Vera Farmiga after “Bates Motel” comes to a close next week.

“One of the things I’ll miss most of all is getting to do those big scenes with Vera, those big, nuanced, emotional scenes,” Highmore recently told The Hollywood Reporter. “Vera really reinvented the role she had on the show with Norma Louise passing away at the end of Season 4. She came back with this whole new take on Mother and this person that existed clearly in Norman’s (Highmore) head. That made for the most fun scenes that we got to do together. It just became a much more psychological game of cat and mouse between them.”

In a separate interview with BT.com earlier this month, Highmore also said that he will miss the “brilliantly written, nuanced and layered scripts” of the A&E series. “It’s a shame that’s all over, but it’s a good thing as well,” added the British actor, who is now set to star in ABC medical drama pilot “The Good Doctor” and is writing two projects with “Bates Motel” executive producer Kerry Ehrin.

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Major plot details about the Season 5 finale of “Bates Motel” are being kept under wraps, but executive producer Carlton Cuse said earlier this week that the series won’t conclude the same way Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” ended.

“The end of our show is going to be significantly different than the end of the movie Psycho,” Cuse told Yahoo TV. “We never saw that as any kind of obligation. And in fact, we thought it would be incredibly disappointing to the audience to give them the ending of the [movie]. So really, where we’re going now is into the original and uncharted waters of our own ending of our narrative.”

And while the finale is expected to break the hearts of the viewers, Highmore told Entertainment Weekly that episode 10 could also pass as the most hilarious hour of the series.

“The last episode could actually be my favorite episode that we’ve ever done,” Highmore said. “Everything seemed to click. And it made me laugh out loud. It could be the funniest episode that we’ve ever done at the same time as being the saddest.”

“Bates Motel” Season 5 finale, titled “The Cord,” airs on Monday, April 24 at 10 p.m. EDT on A&E.