Arie Luyendyk Jr. Breaks Down ‘The Traitors’: Filming With Kate Chastain, What Was ‘Cut’ From Roundtables and Cirie Fields’ Risky Move

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Still not over Peacock’s The Traitors? Us either — and Arie Luyendyk Jr. is breaking down his relationships with his costars and the game’s twists and turns exclusively with Us Weekly.“It’s so authentic — how the game is played and that is what I think makes it so amazing because even when you’re doing the interviews and you’re talking about, let’s say other castmates or the missions, you’re never led by the producers doing the interviews,” the former Bachelor, 41, explained on Us Weekly’s “Here for the Right Reasons” podcast on Thursday, February 2. “It’s completely organic and I feel like that makes it so cool because it really is all about the gameplay.”Arie, for his part, was a faithful — part of the group trying to figure out who the traitors were — for the majority of the game.

After traitor Cody Calafiore was banished, the former ABC star was recruited to join the traitors.“I was so far through the game [at that point],” he told Us, adding that he had already “done all the legwork” getting the cast to trust him so he wasn’t sure what to do. “I did waiver a little bit because I was like, ‘If I say no, then I’m more than likely [to be murdered next], but I had the shield, so I was like I’ll probably will make it through one more murder/banishment, but I’m not going to make it to the end.’ So then I was like, ‘OK I just have to join.’”Arie thought he was going to see Quentin Jiles and Kate Chastain when he accepted the invitation and was “shocked” when he learned Cirie Fields and Christian De La Torre were the traitors all along.“I was like, ‘OK, this is crazy.’ I had never even suspected Christian or Cirie so I was like, ‘We’re definitely making it to the end.’ Because if I didn’t suspect them, then the people