Anthony Perkins absent during filming of Psycho shower scene?

30 June 2010

Was Anthony Perkins, who played Norman Bates, actually present on the set during the filming of the infamous shower scene in the Hitchcock classic, Psycho?

Sitting with Perkins and hearing his stories was a moviegoer’s dream come true, but I had to take a stab at bringing him back to the nightmarish shower scene. I told him what I had heard, and asked if he would confirm the secret of “Psycho”: that during the filming of the horrific moment where Norman Bates, in drag, dispatches Miss Crane, Anthony Perkins himself was nowhere near the movie set.

Originally published Wednesday 30 June 2010, with subsequent revisions, updates to lapsed URLs, etc.