Checking into A&E’s “Bates Motel” can be an intense experience, one that will only get more so in the show’s upcoming third season if producers are to be believed. If you’ve seen the first two seasons, that promise is enough to make you go a little mad with anticipation.

Producers/creators Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin credit the show’s success to it’s cast, and have released audition footage to show how far  Freddie Highmore, Vera Farminga Farmiga, Olivia Cooke, and Max Thieriot have come with their characters—no one more so than Nestor Carbonell (he was on “LOST”).

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