"Bates Motel" Stars Max Thieriot & Olivia Cooke Get Psycho for A&E Series

He was like taking his top off, showing me his big back tattoo. And I was like, whoa.

Yeah. Of course it, of course it was about the tattoo. Friendly. I'm here with Olivia Cook and Max Teriot. How are you?

Good.

This is your first time on the, on the Young Hollywood sofa?

This is my first ever couch interview, actually.

I think you say this is my first ever couch. I'm like, well, thank God you got a job. I'm really happy about Bates Motel now because you can afford your first sofa.

I know, this is it. This is it guys.

This is your first ever sit down sofa interview. Yeah. Wow. With the whole lights and everything like that. Yeah. In Hollywood as well, look at that. From from and that's a real view. That's a real view. Even though it's got a screen up in front of it, it's a real view.

I know. Amazing, isn't it?

But Bates Motel season coming back for a second season. Yes. Exciting.

Yeah, really exciting. It is exciting. Also quite scary. Cuz it's a very dark, creepy-ish. And you're always scared like what if it's shit compared to the first season? We, be honesty, British honesty, right? Yeah, that. Yeah. Are you scared about that? But it won't be. It won't be.

I'm I'm scared about that. Like I think it's great but what if everyone else thinks it's rubbish?

Right. Well, the way the first season went out is pretty impressive. Yeah. Always good to end with a death as well. Always good to end with a death. If someone dies.

Yeah, it's always great. Then you want to know what happened.

Yeah. You you want to see how the person died. That's the key, you kill somebody and then everybody wants to know what happens to that dead person. Right.

Exactly. Or kill them, so.

Exactly. Max, you say that with far too much conviction. Um, but it is it's it's coming back and uh, can we expect, what can we expect from the second season in the way of? I mean, obviously you can't give us spoilers, but we will find out who killed Miss Miss Watson.

Yeah, you will. Right. Yeah, you will. Um, more characters. Obs. Yeah, we uh, Kenny Johnson is in the show. Okay. Um, Katherine Robertson.

From Boss, yeah. I saw that.

Um, Michael Vartan. There's a lot more romance this year. That's nice. In the city of White Pine Bay. So there's a mix of, you know, we have a lot of weed, you know, killing and sex. Right. What more do you wanna see on television?

In life. In life. Yes. Uh, you and Bradley, is that gonna be coming back on the cards or?

Um, well, you know, obviously, uh, after the first episode, Right. we've seen uh, Bradley has sort of lost it. And I think at this point now we realize that um, that Dylan has kind of drawn a boundary. Um, as far as where their relationship can go. Um, so I can't.

Okay, okay, you can't say it.

I can't say it.

Is it, is it worrying on a, on a show like this because people do get killed? Um, yourselves. Like, how, how far in advance do you know? Do you get like a few episodes and then you go and shoot them and then you know? Do you know at any point like someone could turn around and say, sorry Olivia, you're doing a great job, but back off to England.

I'll tell you this, pretty much it seems like since we've started, the first episode, right, that like it, like Yeah. maybe one person has known from the beginning that they were gonna die.

And it's kind of a, obviously based around a prequel to Psycho. It's not Psycho, but it's it's got that premise, right? Loosely. Yeah. Loosely based. Um, do you guys, you watched, because you're very young. Not Max, not the old. But we're getting there, let's be honest. I know. Um, did you watch Psycho before?

I studied it, I studied it in school along with, you know, I'd studied up.

What? No, I don't.

Hitchcock. I studied

Okay, okay. I thought you just meant in school they'd play you Psycho and go out and park and

Some birds will go play in the schoolyard. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And then we watched The Birds as well, but then we also studied other filmmakers as well. So yeah, I'd seen it before, but I never felt like I had to go and re-watch it because it was just, it's just so different.

You don't want to know that little cute Freddy is in fact loving it. Yeah. Who we said, I I said that Freddy Freddy had been on this sofa and he was just such a nice little lad and then in this show it's just sad to see what has happened to him. He can't be trusted. He can't be trusted. Um, if you could describe the second season, three words to sell it to, to the, to the public. Only three words now, don't try and cheat because I will stop you. So take a moment.

Sexy. Psychotic, that's a word. Um, unexpected. I mean, that was a boring word compared to all the other ones.

That's very good. That was good. He looks threatened. Yeah, those were great. Yeah. Beat that, Max.

Hardcore. Okay. Hyphen. Take that anywhere. Take that anywhere you want it. Um, um, surprising. No, I'm gonna reverse that and say shocking. Okay.

I'll let you take that back.

And terrifying. Hardcore, shocking and terrifying.

I don't know. Sexy, psychotic and unexpected. That's enough to sell a show. And naked. You've got to set the seven. I would have thrown that in there, don't you think? It's always seven. Should have thrown Nude in there. It's always seven. Definitely should have thrown Nude in there. Yeah. Um, and you're just quickly, your story of getting the part. You put you put an audition on tape, correct?

Yeah. I just, um, I did a film in England and then my manager in America she sent me Bates Motel to put on tape. And then it was my first time ever doing an American accent and it was, I watched it back and it's horrid. It's so bad.

It can't be that bad.

It's so bad. I don't know how I got hired. And then yeah, three weeks later they my agent rang me and was just like, you you've got the you got the role, you're moving out to Vancouver in a week. And that was it.

And that that was the first time you met everyone as well when you when you came to set.

Yeah, so I was coming over like who's going to send me back? Was Max the nicest to to be friendly? I remember the first time I met Max he was like taking his top off, showing me his big back tattoo. And I was like, whoa.

Any excuse. I saw I saw him in Coffee Bean the other day and he's like, can I get a cappuccino? I'm like, what are you doing Max? He goes, it's hot in here. He's just I mean. Max's getting a little bit strange. Um, he's got that look in his eyes, so I'm gonna wrap this up. Bates Motel. A&E. Watch it. I mean for these guys alone because they're still alive. They're still be watchable. Maybe.