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Interviewer: You get to play the other brother?
Max Thieriot: Yeah.
Interviewer: How does that feel?
Max: It's crazy but it's a lot of fun because we get to bring this
character in that's an unknown element and an unknown character and
somebody that the fans and a lot of the original Psycho watchers aren't
used to seeing. With that, obviously, we have a lot of flexibility and room
to kind of do our own thing.
Interviewer: He's a lot different than I expected when he first came on
the show. How did they sell him to you?
Max: First of all they explained to me that this arc was going to take
place and that I wasn't, basically going to be an *** the entire show.
Because in the beginning I really am like, "Wow, I hate myself. Why am I so
mean?"
I'm walking into the house and I'm basically just walking all over
them like I own this place and I'm terribly rude to my mom and all these
things. But I think that's kind of what makes Dylan kind of redeeming is
that, like, you learn to like him and you realize he's not, like, a
terrible guy, he's not like a bad person. He's just kind of gone through
some bad stuff and like everybody else, he's a little off in the family.
But he's a nice guy. He can be a good guy.
Interviewer: It seems like he really cares about Norma and Norman.
Max: He does. He doesn't necessarily know how to express his feelings, I
think, but he definitely loves his family deep down and he cares about them
and, obviously, they just have sort of a rocky past and sometimes they have
a hard way of showing their affection.
Interviewer: Do you think he might be some savior of some sort and be
able to step in and do something to help redeem Norman before he goes too
far off the deep end?
Max: Maybe. Obviously he's not a savior because we all know what happens.
Maybe he just kind of prolongs that, the real coming of Norman Bates but I
don't think he, at this point anyways, totally is responsible for why
Norman became Norman.