Was Danielle’s delayed stage recruitment of Britney the Traitors’ biggest mistake?Catania: Why recruit Britney? I told Danielle at the reunion, “You
Was Danielle’s delayed stage recruitment of Britney the Traitors’ biggest mistake?
Catania: Why recruit Britney? I told Danielle at the reunion, “You deserved to get stabbed in the back because [she’s someone] someone that screwed you over once before. Why would you do that?” There’s a saying, “Fuck me once, shame on you. Fuck me twice, shame on me.” If I was a Traitor and somebody ever stabbed me in the back, they would not have been my confidant here.
There were a few issues. Why waste kills on people who aren’t threats in the game, like Housewives? That was the dumbest thing. What are you proving, Bob the Drag Queen? I don’t think he was a good Traitor.
Mountbatten: The second mistake was Rob voting for Bob, because had he not, I think it would’ve been a very different outcome. There wouldn’t have been so much arguing going on. When Alan did his teasers before the show aired, the deceit and all of this, we were thinking, really? And of course, it becomes very apparent as soon as it [airs], which was very compelling. I probably got as far as I did because I was the ultimate Faithful in the fact that Bob the Drag Queen did me a great favor voting for me in the first two roundtables. A Traitor really wouldn’t go after another Traitor in the first roundtable or the second.
Would any of you have accepted recruitment as a Traitor?
Efron: I would’ve had to at that point. I’ve talked to Danielle about it too, and she’s like, “Dylan, one, I would’ve recruited you and you would’ve been awful,” which probably would’ve been great for her. If I just went in there red-cheeked and was like, “Oh, I can’t lie.”
But on the flip side, she’s like, “If I would’ve recruited you, you just could’ve won the whole thing.” And that is a very valid point because I had a really good grasp on the people that were suspicious of Danielle. So it would’ve been very simple for me to say, “Yeah, let’s keep Tom around,” or “Let’s maybe murder Britney.” I could have manipulated the situation to win it by myself if that’s what I wanted. Maybe I would’ve wanted to finish it with Danielle or won it all by myself. It’s an unplayed version of this show that would’ve been very fun.
Catania: Anybody’s capable of lying, of killing. In the real world, in real life, every single person is capable of doing anything to anyone. It would’ve been very uncomfortable for me. But maybe I would’ve liked it. Maybe I would’ve gotten into character. Maybe I would’ve been fucking great at it. But it wouldn’t have been as simple for me as getting people to trust me.
What did it feel like to banish Britney without getting to learn if she was a Traitor or Faithful until after already claiming the prize money?
Catania: After what I saw Britney do to Danielle, to turn on somebody that was so close to her, she had to be a Traitor. Because the whole game, Traitors turned on Traitors. I learned, in the game, evil can’t stay with evil. At that point, all’s fair in love and war.
Efron: That was definitely one of my most vulnerable points with that show. Britney’s calling me a Traitor, so I would’ve understood if [the other finalists] got rid of me, and I think that’s why I was so down to just end the game with the four of us. That moment in particular—when Gabby, Dolores and Ivar had my back—I just was like, “Dude, let’s finish together. I don’t want to be cutthroat. I don’t want to ruin any of your games. We won this together. I know you guys are Faithfuls.”
These interviews have been edited and condensed.
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