I reach for a cigarette.
I cross a street.
I run to the movies or to a bar.
Credit: Cate Cameron/A+E Networks; Inset: ADAM LARKEY
I buy a drink.
I speak to the nearest stranger.
Anything that will blow your candles out.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning.
Blow out your candles, Laura.
This is basically how I feel aboutBates Motel.
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About the fictional inhabitants of White Pine Bay.
About my Norma and Norman.
I have no idea how I will escape them living in my head and in my heart.
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They are going to haunt me.
I had some version of their hearts beating in me, even though I knew nothing about them yet.
But I felt the presence of them, and there they were, already looking after me.
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A love story told with humor and heart and heartache.
Carlton, I loved creating this world with you.)
Being with Norma and Norman on that journey, I fell in love with them.
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I spent the next six years with them.Like, full time,intimately, spent it with them.
I know what they would do or feel in any situation.
I know them like the back of my hand.
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How do you say goodbye to people you know like the back of your hand?
Norma was a kind of every woman.
She wanted to have value.
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She wanted to be left alone by men who didnt treat her with the respect she deserved.
Who needed her as much as she needed him, who would never leave her.
She appreciated the love they shared because she had not experienced a lot of love in her life.
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Norma was damaged, but she never wallowed in it.
She rarely felt sorry for herself.
She always put one foot in front of the other and kept going.
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She kicked ass when she had to.
She kept trying to find happiness, find peace, take care of her son.
Have value in a world that did not value her.
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And she did find it.
Like I said, writers are crazy.
Norman, also, has been one of the loves of my life and a joy to help create.
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Crazy Norman with his loving heart and his fragile brain.
Never was there so much joy in any psycho, homicidal maniac.
Writing the scenes where he and Norma were in co-dependent bliss was true happiness for me.
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Being able to live inside Norma and Norman, when they were together and happy.
was always a beautiful dream.)
I also loved Normans idiosyncrasies.
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His oopsy daisys and his well I reckons.
(Freddie reveled in those and contributed most of them.)
I always wanted to save him.
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I always wanted to save them.
I loved Dylan with his wounded heart and his clarity and his selflessness.
His beautiful love for his family that never really totally gave him back the love he deserved.
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He strove to see the truth in the dark.
Even though it hurt him.
Even though it knocked him down.
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He kept getting up.
He kept going forward.
He is a hero of truth in my opinion.
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Emma, the last person who should have outlived everyone else.
And yet she did.
Getting to spend these years with Alex Romero was another joy.
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Their hearts were trying, very, very carefully, to get out in the sun.
And they finally did, for a short time.
Its hard to say goodbye.
But goodbye must be said to all the inhabitants of crazy White Pine Bay!
The broken and heartbreaking Caleb who could never escape himself.
The one man Comedia del Arte that is Chick Hogan.
The sacrificial lamb, Bradley Martin.
The enigmatic Miss Watson.
The totally fed up Shelby.
The hilariously evil Abernathy.
The tragically fabulous Bob Paris.
The only woman who could fill the Sheriff shoes left by Romero, Jane Greene.
I hear the clock ticking.
Time is moving forward.
Things have their time on this earth.
Time to wrap this up.
And yet I cant.
I feel like Norman and Norma are sitting here with me, laughing as I have a go at.
At the illusion that I can.
Blow out your candles, Laura…
Thank you for going on this ride with me.
For being by my side.
For never leaving me alone.
Theres a bonfire burning in my heart and always will be.
Good luck blowing that fer out, my friends.
And so, goodbye.
The last time I was at my house
Side by side
Love how Tucker Gates framed this amazing shot.
Damn Im going to miss working with these old cars.
The actors arent bad either.
On the set acting out Dylans blocking.
Vera says I should get this Pphotoshopped so it looks like a portrait of me on the wall haha.
Chilling in the living room with Freddie and J Paul, our on-set costumer and a lovely human being.
Backstage as Donna fixes dead Normas hair
Goodbye little kitchen??
A wish for you all.
Last day in the house
No comment.
Life is a dream.
Watching this on the monitor and crying while Max kills it in all respects.
Tucker Gates, I will miss breathing down your neck at the monitor, haha.
Thank you for your artistry, my friend.
My angels
What to do in between killing your brother and playing dead at the dining table.
