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Vera Farmiga s portrayal of Norma Bates is more sympathetic than you might expect . Producers point out that what Psycho fans know about Norman s twisted mother largely comes from her insane son. I got into this wanting to defend who that woman was,  Farmiga says. [In the show] she was just such a beautiful portrait of valiant maternity to me [it's] a beautiful love letter between a mother and her son, and that's that's how I perceive the character. There's an Edvard Munch painting of the Madonna. It's really warped and it kind of exudes the sacred and the profane and it's just psychologically gripping, and that's what I was so drawn to with Norma. She's a playground for an actress.
What drives Norman nuts may be up for debate . [Norman] kind of indirectly challenges the audience by we all know where he's going to end up, Highmore says. It doesn't give anything away to say that he'll go on to be psycho. But is that necessarily because of his upbringing? It's that sort of argument between nature versus nurture. Is he who he is or is it because they move to this dodgy town and there's a sort of weird, intimate relationship between car rental europe prague Norma and Norman. And that challenges car rental europe prague the audience to think, Well, if I was in that situation, if I had had the upbringing that Norman had had, would I be slightly different? car rental europe prague You know, we all go a little mad sometimes.