The cast of 'The Traitors' season 3 is here to answer your burning fan questions! Join Carolyn Wiger, Danielle Reyes, Dylan Efron, Dolores Catania, Bob Harper, and Britney Haynes as they dive into fan mail and share their thoughts on all the wildest moments from the hit reality competition show.
From debating whether this is the messiest group of Traitors ever, to Bob Harper’s signature head-to-toe Thom Browne looks, to Carolyn joking about wanting to “murder” Danielle and Rob—no topic is off-limits. Danielle spills on whether she watched Carolyn’s 'Survivor' season, and the cast dishes on whether there’s actually a strategy to taking down the Housewives. Get ready for laughs, drama, and behind-the-scenes tea as the cast reacts to your best questions. Don’t miss 'The Traitors' season 3, streaming now on Peacock!
From debating whether this is the messiest group of Traitors ever, to Bob Harper’s signature head-to-toe Thom Browne looks, to Carolyn joking about wanting to “murder” Danielle and Rob—no topic is off-limits. Danielle spills on whether she watched Carolyn’s 'Survivor' season, and the cast dishes on whether there’s actually a strategy to taking down the Housewives. Get ready for laughs, drama, and behind-the-scenes tea as the cast reacts to your best questions. Don’t miss 'The Traitors' season 3, streaming now on Peacock!
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00:00I said, Mom, how am I going to know who the traitors are?
00:02She goes, it's easy, Dolores.
00:04Evil can't stay with evil.
00:05What's up, InStyle?
00:07We're the cast of Traitors.
00:09Traitors 3.
00:10Is it 3?
00:10And we're going to open some fan mail today.
00:12This should be exciting.
00:13Do you want to go first?
00:14No, ladies first.
00:15Ladies first?
00:15OK, fine.
00:22The messiest group of traitors ever.
00:24And I love every bit of it.
00:25Where is the lie?
00:27We're so messy.
00:28I know that there's only two prior seasons of the traitors.
00:31But typically, you're not going for each other this quickly.
00:36They have to understand we didn't know that was going on.
00:39Now it makes sense why we couldn't predict any murders,
00:42why it felt like there was no strategy.
00:43It was because the traitors were at each other.
00:45Organize chaos.
00:47That's the best way to describe us.
00:49It's not oil and water.
00:50It's oil, water, a little vinegar, some herbs.
00:54When I was on my way to Scotland, I said, Mom,
00:57how am I going to know who the traitors are?
00:59She goes, it's easy, Dolores.
01:01Evil can't stay with evil.
01:02Maybe that's the inherent difference
01:04of being a faithful and a traitor,
01:05is when you're a faithful, you know
01:07that you're going to win with other faithfuls at the end.
01:10Where a traitor has that little dangling fruit that's like,
01:13I could take all this to myself, and it's badass if I do it.
01:17Got to put my glasses on.
01:18Put your readers on.
01:19All right, Bob Harper is in full Tom Brown
01:22every single time he is on camera.
01:24I'm living, hashtag traitors.
01:26That's true.
01:26And I'm in full-on Tom Brown right now.
01:29I like his clothes because they're refined.
01:31They're a bit rigid.
01:33I feel powerful.
01:34And let me tell you, being on Traitors,
01:36you needed to find some sort of confidence.
01:38The very first day I was there, and I had that tweed Tom Brown
01:43coat, people were saying, oh, you're really giving Alan
01:45Cumming a run for his money.
01:46I'm like, oh, no, no, no, not at all.
01:48Alan gives costumes.
01:50I give looks.
01:52Every season, I feel like the bar gets a little higher,
01:55a little higher, a little higher.
01:56And people get more into it.
01:57And I was really excited about bringing
02:00the whole Scottish murder mystery vibe.
02:03I love a theme.
02:04You were a standout to me.
02:06There's one thing to just have all the money in the world
02:09and buy top designers and play that.
02:13But it's a whole other thing to have actual style.
02:16And very approachable price points.
02:18There's possibly a Forever 21 tag on something that I wore.
02:23I'll do one with just you now.
02:25Carolyn, saying the only two people she wants to murder
02:28are Danielle and Rob is all of us right now.
02:32Yeah, absolutely.
02:34When I say that, and I can just feel it,
02:36and it takes me back watching.
02:37Because it's like, yes, I want to literally murder you.
02:41I don't want to talk about, who am I going to murder today?
02:45Who are we going to?
02:46Because I don't give a shit.
02:48I just don't want either one of you.
02:49I was so mad.
02:51I knew she was pissed.
02:52I don't expect too many fans.
02:54This game got my girl, Danielle, dizzy, for real.
02:57She's all over the place and she knows it.
03:00So many bad moves, starting with turning on Carolyn.
03:03Sorry, girl.
03:04Wonder if she actually ever saw Carolyn's season of Survivor.
03:08It was beautiful.
03:09Don't get distracted by her mannerism.
03:12Carolyn's got game.
03:14Yes, Tanya, preach.
03:16I believe you.
03:17Yes, I am messy.
03:18Yes, I'm all over the place.
03:20And it's a chaotic mess.
03:22But I couldn't give you guys the real Danielle,
03:24where she's all calm, cool, and collective.
03:26Because that's what you guys expect.
03:28So being messy and chaotic is what kept me
03:32kind of under the radar with the traitors.
03:34I know on the screen it seems like,
03:36oh, she's such an obvious traitor.
03:38But I did things on purpose to build faith in the faithfuls.
03:44I worked hard in doing it.
03:45Some people can do it more naturally,
03:47where they are a little chaotic
03:49and a little all over the place.
03:51And they seem to blend in just fine.
03:53So I think as much as you guys watch the show,
03:57you have to appreciate what we're doing.
03:59I've read some messed up things about me
04:01when I played Survivor.
04:02And it usually is pretty personal,
04:04whether I'm on drugs or I'm crazy or mental
04:07or what's wrong with me.
04:08It's not about my gameplay.
04:09It's always what the hell is wrong with her.
04:12Nothing's wrong with me.
04:14So it's been fun to see like the impersonations.
04:17I never knew I talked or sounded like that,
04:20but I'm aware of my, I'm aware of my faces.
04:23I can't, it's not something that I can control
04:26or I try to, it's always been there
04:28where people are like, you need to like contain it.
04:31I do have weird faces,
04:32which don't make me feel cute on a lot of the things,
04:35but it's fine.
04:36It's like, I'm not out there to be cute.
04:38She's an underdog.
04:39She's been an underdog her whole life
04:41and it shows up on camera and she's smart and a fighter.
04:45So I think it's very easy for the audience
04:47to clue in on that and cheer for her.
04:50Hopefully they know now
04:51that none of the housewives are traitors
04:53and they can leave Dolores alone
04:54so that she can slime through the competition
04:58and be the first housewife to win the traitors.
05:01Why slime through?
05:02I guess I got lucky that they didn't kill me
05:04or maybe, I don't know why they saved me for last.
05:08Like if I was thinking like a cop,
05:10I'm like, okay, now you just killed all my friends
05:13and you're saving me for last.
05:15Where I come from, it's a bad thing
05:16to be the last one standing.
05:17I actually at one point say,
05:19I think I have to go back to street smart school
05:20because I was fooled quite a bit here.
05:22I have a lot of instinct,
05:23a lot of gut instinct about people when I meet them,
05:26but this was a different animal.
05:27So you never know.
05:28Oh, you got war and peace on this.
05:31Hold on.
05:33The gamers just wanting to get rid of the housewives
05:35is so annoying and there's no reason for it.
05:37It's like they just say housewives just due to the name.
05:41There's no strategy behind getting rid of the housewives.
05:44The three-girl alliance was stronger than the housewives.
05:46Derek and Wes are stronger than the housewives.
05:49Why don't the traitors ever want to get them out?
05:52Traitors just see housewives and be like,
05:54yep, they have to go.
05:56Why do y'all think the housewives are so weak?
05:58Dorinda said they were like a mafia, yes.
06:00Everybody's jealous of a housewife.
06:02Them ladies ride hard together.
06:04I'm almost offended saying that we weren't strong.
06:07Like I'm offended because I'm used
06:09to being a very strong personality.
06:10Housewives are very strong.
06:12I don't know about you,
06:13but did you want to face the housewife at the round table?
06:15I did, I really, not at the round table.
06:18Who's the leader of housewives?
06:19Dorinda.
06:20Try to be the mother that you don't want to get rid of.
06:23The hostess with the mostest.
06:25And Dorinda would have got them together
06:27and all she had to do was say our name one time
06:29and you got one, two, three, four, plus Bob H.,
06:32that's five people,
06:33and your ass is banished at the round table.
06:35I don't know why y'all can't seem
06:36to understand that alliance.
06:37That is the most scariest alliance of anybody.
06:39You haven't been slayed until you get slayed by a housewife.
06:42That's the fact, Carolyn.
06:43And I disagree.
06:44But we are not strong in strategic gaming,
06:47so it was really dumb.
06:49They wasted all those kills, important kills,
06:53on people that wouldn't have
06:55fucking figured them out anyway.
06:56She wasn't playing dumb.
06:57She wasn't.
06:58Dorinda was not.
06:59I do believe, same with Ayaan.
07:01Ayaan was not playing stupid.
07:02Ayaan was on to Bob, the drag queen.
07:05I think Robin's a perfect example of that.
07:07Multiple people were like, are you a lawyer?
07:09And I'm like, no, I'm a housewife, you know what I mean?
07:11She was very, would argue with so much conviction,
07:14but it was, a lot of time, not right.
07:16The traitors should have used her like a dog.
07:19I think that Phaedra made such an impact
07:23in the previous season,
07:25that everyone was so concerned about the housewives.
07:30I think Bob, the drag queen,
07:31was very concerned about the housewives.
07:34Don't come for the housewives, honey.
07:37We are not a game.
07:38I'm not saying it was strategy.
07:40I'm just saying they ride hard together.
07:43That's four votes.
07:44Then you got Bob H., that's five votes, five.
07:47So you take out the voice.
07:49Who was the voice?
07:50Dorinda.
07:50I wanted to be in with the housewives,
07:52and they just kept frickin' dying.
07:53It wasn't even an option.
07:55Oh, here we go.
07:56When Danielle voted for me,
07:58my heart shattered into a thousand pieces.
08:00I can't lie.
08:01Oh, I cried too.
08:04The tears I cried for Danielle were real.
08:06That one hurt me the most.
08:07It was a true blindside.
08:09I was not expecting that to go down,
08:12and so I had to keep it together.
08:14It was not a fun moment to watch.
08:17I kept visualizing myself in the desert,
08:20surrounded by cactuses,
08:22just so I would not give any emotion.
08:24Even though we both knew, you still felt blindsided?
08:28I did not know.
08:29See, the thing is, when you watch it,
08:31Boston Robb gathered us, yes, and he said,
08:35Bob, the drag queen's name is going down.
08:37And I immediately said, no, no, no, no.
08:39It's okay.
08:41We got Nikki, and then we don't kill Ciara,
08:44and then we banish, or we banish Ciara the next day.
08:47And I go off in the castle thinking, that's the deal.
08:51But then, y'all continue the conversation.
08:54So, I did not know.
08:56I knew this name was going down.
08:57Which wasn't much different from what he said to us.
08:59I did not know that it was going down like that.
09:04To me, a blindside is when you have, like,
09:05literally no idea, and I know that was the plan.
09:08Yes, it was last minute.
09:09Yes, it still was a shock,
09:10because it's like, how is this going to be pulled off?
09:12But it was obvious, like, it's absolutely,
09:14he's got the votes for this.
09:16I don't see it as a blindside when it's someone telling.
09:18I think you don't see it because you and Boston Robb
09:21continued the conversation when I wasn't there.
09:24It was a blindside to me because I had no clue.
09:27And I'm just telling you, I was completely off the rails.
09:31You can tell by my confessionals,
09:33I'm looking like Tammy Faye Baker with raccoon eyes,
09:36because I was blindsided.
09:39Okay.
09:40Waiting for Danielle to recruit Britney as a traitor.
09:42Britney's too quiet to be a good faithful.
09:45Ugh.
09:46I'm still waiting for her to activate.
09:48Like, please, mama.
09:50Being quiet is a strategy.
09:54Not being caught saying the wrong thing
09:57to the wrong person is a strategy.
09:59You can see time and time again on the show
10:01how someone says, I'm sus on Danielle.
10:05And then the next day they're murdered, Jeremy.
10:07Britney's played a really under the radar game,
10:09but she's so funny on screen.
10:12So she's so easy to root for.
10:13You underestimate her.
10:14However, I was very vocal in commentary.
10:18The diary room of the castle, I was very vocal.
10:21And unfortunately, this program just doesn't allow
10:25for a lot of commentary.
10:27You're gonna have to take that up with the team.
10:30She was quiet, those roundtables.
10:32And as soon as she speaks in one of those confessionals,
10:34it's like, man, she must have diaried every night as a kid
10:39and just carried that onto the show.
10:41Britney, who I loved, respected, knew from Big Brother,
10:46my whole thinking was, she is really quiet,
10:49which makes her sus.
10:50And I'm like, she must be a really good traitor.
10:53But like, you just never know.
10:54It's so much harder than it looks.
10:56Yeah.
10:56I didn't expect Dylan Efron to be one
10:58of the smartest, intuitive players on Traitors.
11:01That man is more than just a pretty face, okay.
11:04When I came into this game,
11:05I was dead set on just being quiet at the roundtables,
11:08especially in the beginning.
11:10But once you're at that roundtable
11:12and you see people ganging up on your friends
11:15that you believe are telling the truth,
11:16it makes you wanna speak up.
11:18So I didn't play the strategy
11:19I went into the game with at all.
11:22The expectations for me were so low
11:24that if I went into this game
11:26and just was able to speak a cohesive sentence,
11:29then people are gonna be like,
11:30oh, that guy actually has a brain.
11:32I'm definitely getting the benefit
11:34of very low expectations and just hitting the bar.
11:36Dylan was like my Frankie away from home.
11:39Frankie has the biggest heart.
11:41He says his prayers, he cleans his room, he helps me.
11:45And he reminded me of Frankie.
11:47He's so good, he's so pure.
11:49I will fight you.
11:50I will hurt you if you think
11:53you're gonna say something mean to my Dylan.
11:55I knew I could trust Dolores and trust,
11:57like trust in life is so important.
12:00And when you find someone you can trust, you lean into it.
12:02In the castle, it's even more important.
12:04And I knew from the very beginning,
12:07I could just tell Dolores anything.
12:08She had to hear so many bad theories of mine.
12:10If he killed me and he was a traitor,
12:12I would have rather been killed
12:13by somebody that I really liked
12:15than somebody I just got played for a fool by.
12:17You know what I mean?
12:17Oh, hmm.
12:19I do feel like if Rob wanted to try
12:22and gain some trust back from Danielle and Carolyn,
12:25he should have let them dictate who gets murdered.
12:28You guys, those murders, we all have to agree.
12:32We're up late doing busy work.
12:34It's exhausting killing people that late.
12:36Do we wanna be in there all night?
12:38No.
12:39Early on, it ain't worth fighting for Dorinda.
12:43It doesn't matter who fricking goes that early.
12:46It's just a bunch of random people.
12:48Right, we got to the point where like,
12:50we will say a name, we discuss.
12:52Some people weren't good at discussing.
12:53Some people were great at discussing.
12:55Who wasn't great at discussing?
12:58Some people weren't articulate.
13:00And to quote a legend of Survivor, Sandra,
13:04"'Long as it ain't me."
13:06Thanks for opening some fan mail.
13:07Thank you for fan mailing with us.
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