On tonight’s Bates Motel we meet Sam Loomis’s girlfriend Marion Crane played by pop star Rihanna. She’s about to make the bad decision that leads to her checking into the Bates Motel. Does she steal from her work like the Marion Crane of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho did? Rihanna filmed scenes of Crane at work in downtown Vancouver, attracting every paparazzi in town and a security detail with umbrellas.
Here she is stuffing a suitcase full of cash.
Later a Rihanna double loaded the suitcase into the back of a red sportscar, filmed in east Vancouver.
Marion Crane’s apartment in Seattle.
Not Rihanna.
And hits the road.
Nestor Carbonell directs tonight’s episode.
Can @rihanna find shelter from the storm? #BatesMotel pic.twitter.com/41XNbfsnoj
— Bates Motel on A&E (@InsideBates) March 21, 2017
Next week we’ll see what happens when she meets Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) on the episode called Marion Crane.
Production closed the entire block and diverted traffic when Rihanna filmed at the motel and house set in Aldergrove (since demolished).
Showrunner Kerry Ehrin had to wear a security badge to get onto her own set.
Rihanna’s Instagram
.@Rihanna is ready to hit the road. #BatesMotel pic.twitter.com/eemrNcrI8R
— Bates Motel on A&E (@InsideBates) March 16, 2017