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  • 10 months ago
Evie Morrison, from Inverness, has revealed what it was like to be a faithful in BBC's hit TV show, The Traitors.
Transcript
00:00 I think every single person in there
00:03 would have brought something different to being a traitor as well, so it would have been really interesting to see a few of them.
00:06 Have you had the chance to be a traitor?
00:08 I have to say yes, right? I have to say yes.
00:12 I went in there and I really thought, you know, that that's how you play the game.
00:16 That's how you really get immersed in the games if you are a traitor, because you control it.
00:19 You know, you're not worrying about being murdered or anything.
00:21 But I think maybe now watching everybody else struggle so much,
00:26 especially Ash, Ash really struggled at the start, you know, I definitely wouldn't have wanted to be in that position.
00:32 So I think a bit of yes and a bit of no.
00:34 It's really funny because it's one thing figuring out who a traitor is or having suspicions,
00:38 but it's a completely another thing convincing a group.
00:40 So I feel like being able to pick up on things and pick up on people acting different,
00:45 I feel like I was quite good at.
00:47 But actually, the social influence of the group, it's really, really hard to convince people on a theory.
00:52 And I think a few people that were quite good at figuring out theories like Zach or Jaz,
00:57 you know, they were in a similar boat to me and that they maybe weren't always believed when they were,
01:01 you know, when they finally got the chance to speak about what they suspected.
01:06 I remember really vividly when Paul came back from the dungeon.
01:09 I said, OK, well, if Paul comes back, he must be a traitor.
01:11 And Diane immediately went, no. And I trusted Diane.
01:14 I remember thinking, OK, maybe I actually am on, you know, I'm on the wrong path there.
01:18 So it's really difficult to say, yeah, I absolutely sussed them out because there's so many other elements that affect your suspicions.
01:25 I thought Paul was a traitor because he was fake crying.
01:28 He was fake crying. And, you know, when somebody fake cries, there's no tears and you're like so super suspicious.
01:33 So I think because we do our missions in grounds that I'm like really familiar with, you know, I'm always outdoors up here.
01:39 Loftglass is where we do like our water based missions.
01:42 And, you know, I've walked my dogs around there, I've hiked the hills around there.
01:45 And so I really felt like it was it was really nice being able to do those missions in places that I'd already explored.
01:51 And of course, the final mission was at Portnokie. And I've spent loads of time there as a kid as well.
01:56 So it was really nice being like the unofficial tour guide of the cast.
02:00 I would like to say that it was because I was, you know, slightly quiet, a bit more reserved.
02:06 I would like to say that I think, you know, I didn't get involved in drama.
02:09 I wasn't, you know, arch enemies with anybody in there.
02:13 I think I was pretty safe to take all the way through. But I do think it's because Harry knew I trusted him.
02:18 I think Harry knew I trusted him. And I think he knew that it would take a lot for me to vote for him.
02:23 And, you know, I never did. So when you lose one of your role, when you lose a faithful, it's really, really difficult to come to terms with the fact that you played quite a big part in that, you know, you voted for them and you sent them home.
02:33 It definitely was intense. I think I spoke about it on the programme that I do have this skill and being able to detach and not get too close.
02:41 It does come from veterinary nursing. You know, like I said, in the programme, you can be dealing with one case and then having to deal with another case.
02:48 And, you know, it's just constant. So I feel like I was able to take that skill from my career and put it into the traitors.
02:53 And it meant that, you know, we'd banished somebody. You can feel sad about it for five minutes and then you just need to get on with it.
02:59 And I do think that kept me level headed. I do think it got me to the end. But of course, that final day, I was just crying the whole time.
03:06 I felt like it just erupted. It erupted. I did like a month's worth of crying and emotional stress in one day.
03:14 So it was really difficult. You have to take it day by day in there. I don't.
03:18 I think people that try and have long term strategies usually find that they have to change them quite quickly.
03:23 You need to be really adaptable. So I think as long as you can kind of just keep your head above water and not let it get to you that much.
03:30 You know, I do think that's that's a good strategy. But it was intense. It was intense.
03:35 And it was it was never ending, really, for that whole month. You just had to kind of ride the wave and just get as far as you could.
03:41 I mean, if you're a faithful, your aim is longevity. Your aim is to get to the end.
03:45 And that kind of looked different for everybody, you know, different game plans for everyone.
03:49 But I think I think me just keeping my head underneath the radar and, you know, not stepping out of place too much did get me get me all the way to the end.
03:57 Even though even though you're suspecting everybody, there's a large part of our time that isn't filmed,
04:03 you know, so that we're not talking about like strategy, we're not talking about suspicions.
04:07 And you do end up just being really close to these people. I mean, like I said, you get away from your you're not on your phone.
04:12 You're not allowed to contact anybody. So they become your support system.
04:16 So it feels like there's very much a switch between like off time and on time.
04:20 And it can be really difficult if you've just spent all of that time with somebody and, you know, learning about their life and learning about their jobs.
04:26 And what they like and don't like. And then you're turning around and writing their name on a slate.
04:30 It can be really, really difficult. But I feel like all of us really understood that it was a game at the end of the day.
04:36 And you have to play the game. And we're all best friends now, which is really lovely.
04:39 So, yeah, there's no hard feelings. Really proud to be, you know, one of the just two women that were there.
04:45 And then also the only Scot. I felt really, really proud that I was the only Scottish person there because we do have a history of not doing so well in these types of things.
04:54 So yeah, I was really happy, especially as a local, to be standing there in the final.