The Traitors Season 2 Interview: Deontay Wilder, Kevin Kreider, and John Bercow
11The Traitors series focuses on mind games, plotting, and deceit. But for the Faithful players, there is an additional level of paranoia and sadness. Paranoia surrounds whether they’ll be murdered by the Traitors or, worse, send another Faithful home. Playing the game requires a mix of sharp instinct and observation, with the challenge of figuring out whether those instincts are right, wrong, or come from a sense of bias. Because it’s such a social and psychological game, going in with a clear head and an even more precise strategy is essential.
Strategy and awareness are two things that every fighter, actor, and politician needs to thrive in their particular field. Fighters train and spar to gain practice and strategize different ways to move their bodies to overpower their opponents. Actors must develop a character by understanding the character’s goals and then strategize how to play that role to reach that goal emotionally. And, for politicians, strategy is paramount to the work they do. Politicians should eat, sleep, and breathe strategy, as every word that comes out of their mouths carries immense weight while in office. They must also have a clear understanding and basic awareness of how people think. Politicians have to understand their voter base, actors have to understand their interactions with other characters, and fighters need to be able to read their opponent’s body movements to prepare to defend themselves or go on the attack.
One would assume this would mean that a former heavyweight champion of the world like Deontay Wilder, a politician like former UK Parliamentarian John Bercow, and an actor/reality TV star like Kevin Kreider would be the biggest threats in a competition like The Traitors, but that is simply not true. The game, specifically for the Faithfuls, becomes a clash of the id, ego, and super-ego. These Freudian terms are the three significant aspects of a person's personality: the id is instinctual, the ego is how a person navigates through the world, and the super-ego is where a person's sense of morality resides.
With no influence from the outside world, including access to phones and social media, these three aspects of each person playing The Traitors begin to clash pretty quickly. It’s hard to trust one's instincts in a vacuum, after all. Especially when those instincts turn out to be incorrect. Is being ruthless really the only way to win, or can sincerity prevail? Collider had the opportunity to speak with Deontay, John, and Kevin before and after their experience in the game. They had specific ideas and expectations going in but gained way more than they could have imagined.
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