‘Bates Motel’ Casting News: ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ Star Ryan Hurst Added To Season 3 Cast

A&E's drama, Bates Motel, is gearing up for its season three premiere next year and this season there will be a new face visiting the Bates Motel. Sons of Anarchy alum Ryan Hurst is now joining the season three cast.

TV Line exclusively learned that Hurst would be joining the Bates Motel cast as a recurring character. He will play Chick Hogan, "a badass ex-con and with an intelligent, dark and menacing quality," TV Line reported.

The Sons of Anarchy star won't have to try too hard to understand and nail his upcoming role on Bates Motel. His character Chick will be very familiar to his Sons' character Opie, who the actor played for five seasons.

"Chick owns a motorbike shop, but gets his money from running an illegal firearms business near the Dylan's new farm," the publication explained. "I'm told he will lock horns with Dylan's father Caleb––played by Hurt's former Sons colleague Kenny Johnson."

As for the rest of the Bates cast, their storylines will continue to grow based on last season's shift when Norman Bates (played by Freddie Highmore) created a new way to deal with his mother Norma Bates (played by Vera Farmiga). Norman ended season two by creating an alternate personality in order to internalize and offload his guilt onto her, Zap2It reported.

"A veil got lifted at the end of last season and they both saw some things. And while Norman was absolved in a way by the lie-detector test, I think that those things are still alive in them, the knowledge of those things. How that affects their relationship to each other, two people who have always been closer than anything in the world to each other, and now that there is a knowledge of that; how is that going to begin to affect them and splinter them?" executive producer Kerry Ehrin told Zap2It during San Diego Comic Con 2014.

Highmore, who plays Norman, explained that his character will continue to unravel, and we won't be seeing any stability when it comes to his role this season. "It's continuing his descent into insanity, and also to what point do we stop supporting Norman and sort of stop loving him. At the end of last season, you realize Norman can be quite manipulative about certain things, and has this sort of conscience now of what he's capable of. To what extent will he always remain the good guy, or the guy that we can at least pretend is nice?" he told the publication.

Bates Motel will return to A&E in 2015.