Bud, Not Buddy has 78,894 ratings and 4,210 reviews. It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on th...
Norman Bates Played by Freddie Highmore. A smart, quietly funny, handsome and sometimes shy seventeen-year-old boy with an intensely close bond to his mother. Norman is resistant to starting over in a new town, but begins to change his mind as he spread his wings a little. Freddie Highmore.
On July 2, 2012, A&E gave Bates Motel a straight-to-series order. Chris Bacon was hired to score the music for the series in January 2013. Casting. On August 27, 2012, Vera Farmiga was the first to be cast in the leading role of Norma Louise Bates. On September 14, 2012, Freddie Highmore was cast as Norman Bates.