Freddie Highmore: Variety Emmy Studio 2013

Freddie Highmore attends the 2013 Variety Emmy Studio held at Palihouse on Thursday afternoon (May 30) in West Hollywood, Calif.

The 21-year-old Bates Motel star hung out with his fellow Emmy nominees Jack Huston, David Morrissey, Chip Esten, Vincent Kartheiser, and Dean Norris at the event.

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“I think people still have sympathy for him,” Freddie told EW. “It’s a weird sense of hope that you think he won’t have to go down the path that he must go down. So people have still been friendly. No one’s run away [from me] – yet. That would be good, wouldn’t it? You walk in, and everyone leaves or hides in the corner.”

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