'Bates Motel' Preview: Freddie Highmore and Nestor Carbonell Play 2 Truths and a Lie

You’re hearing it straight from the psycho’s mouth: Bates Motel’s third season will find Norman Bates’s true, inevitable personality emerging more and more, as the sweet teen starts displaying more “perv”-like behavior.

In this interview with Yahoo TV, Bates stars Freddie Highmore and Nestor Carbonell share that Norman’s increasingly odd personality will fuel Sheriff Romero’s suspicions that Norman is the one who killed his teacher, Blair Watson. With Season 3 approaching, the pair agreed to play a game of 2 Truths and a Lie about what’s coming up.

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Highmore also reveals that the focus of Season 3 is really how Norman will struggle with the two sides of his personality, and with “building a relationship with a fictional version of his mother,” the one we saw him use to pass the lie detector test about Watson’s murder in the Season 2 finale.

And while he and Carbonell say they both think Norman still seems somewhat redeemable, Highmore says that will be challenged in Season 3: “Certain scenes… this new girl arrives at the motel, and he starts watching her undress and in the shower, and I just think he’s a bit of a perv.”

Bates Motel Season 3 premieres Monday, March 9 at 9 p.m. on A&E.