To describe the relationship between "Bates Motel" troubled teen Norman Bates and his mother Norma dysfunctional would be something of an understatement. They both became accomplices to each other's murderous tendencies, often spooned in the same bed together, and thanks to the former's dissociative identity disorder, ultimately ended up becoming the same person.
Thankfully, the two actors who built such a compelling but disturbing bond on screen have a much healthier one when the cameras aren't rolling. Freddie Highmore became a part of Vera Farmiga's family while they were filming the criminally underrated drama in Vancouver. So much so that, as Farmiga told the AP (via CTV News), he was asked to be the godfather to her and husband Renn Hawkey's oldest child, Fynn.
In 2016, Farmiga explained her real-life connection with Highmore further during a Comic-Con chat with Daily Dead. "We do have a great rapport," she shared. "We have a deep, deep friendship. With friendship you can do no wrong. It's unconditional love between the two of us, so we can push each other further, we can dig deeper. After all these years, we know each other's trip switches. He's a big part of my family and I'm part of his now, so what you're seeing also is that tenderness."
