It was last year that “The Traitors”, based on the Dutch program “De Verraders”, premiered on TV4 under the leadership of the actor Dragomir Mrsic.
In the social and psychological game, a number of participants are designated as traitors, while the rest are loyal. During the course of the game, the traitors must both kill and manipulate, while the rest of the group must try to figure out who the traitors are and then vote them out at the round table.
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Dragomir Mrsic. Photo: Claudio Bresciani/TT
In the first season, it was, among others, the presenter Hasso Arothe podcaster and comedian Johanna Nordström as well as the actor Claudia Galli Concha who participated. However, the final winner was Katia Mosallywho was also a traitor.
– It was so much more mentally difficult than I thought, she said The evening paper then and continued further:
– On the last day, I was really at my breaking point. It doesn’t come naturally to me to lie to people I like, and have to deceive them. It has been hard. But I would also have done it a hundred times over, because it was so much fun and I got to know amazing people.
Katia Mosally, known from the Idol jury, won the Traitors 2023. Photo: Christine Olsson/TT
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Now a new season of the program is rolling on TV4.
– It’s time for a new chapter of the Traitors, with new participants who all have connections to crime, games and competition. We enter the new season where the Swedish people know what the Traitors are and have with them last year’s excitement and dramatic ending. You can’t trust anyone, said Dragomir Mrsic in a press release before the premiere on October 25.
In Förrädarna 2024, 20 profiles who are known from different spheres participate. Examples of participants are the former minister and the lawyer Thomas Bodstromthe forensic scientist Kelda Staggthe MMA fighter Liam Pitts and the gamer Emilia Hult.
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Photo: Tommy Darmark/TV4
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This is how you choose participants for the Traitors
But how does the production actually select the participants for The Traitors? News24 posed the question to the show’s executive producer Johan Janrell-Aspnäswhich revealed what the “casting process” looks like.
– Basically, we make broad entertainment for the whole family, so the casting is a bit after that, but we are extremely keen that the people who participate have abilities, skills and experiences that make them exciting players regardless of whether they become loyal or traitors.
The traitors are broadcast on TV4. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT
He also reveals that the interest in participating in Traitors is “enormous”.
– People get in touch and wonder how to get a seat at the round table, and in several cases we have chosen to wait with certain names in order to prioritize as interesting a mix of personalities and strengths as possible. Then it is common for us to contact people who we think would be suitable.
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