The Traitors: New Blood has arrived! Throughout the season, Mike Bloom will speak with someone from the star-studded cast who was murdered or banished on the iconic Emmy-winning reality series.It’s only fitting that Michael Foote’s primary strategy on The Traitors: New Blood was to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The lawyer was upfront with his profession from the beginning, and established himself as one of the most vocal Faithfuls from the jump. We saw that in the very first Roundtable of the season, when he made the opening argument that Victor Vollbrechthausen’s perspiration was making him the perpetrator. When Michael received intel that a recruitment in plain sight happened, he immediately brought it to the group, hoping it established him as the “Faithful of the Faithful” of the season.
A game like The Traitors, however, can get you in your head and out of your mind. And, with the Faithfuls unsuccessful in nabbing a Traitor, they fell into a pattern of suspecting everybody — even their closest allies. After a murder in plain sight had the Traitors feeling the heat (and the fruit), they decided to turn everyone’s focus onto Michael, someone who, on paper, would be perfect to recruit. And so Michael suddenly found himself going from a Roundtable prosecutor to a defendant, trying (and ultimately failing) to avoid a guilty verdict.Read below for our interview with Michael. And check out new episodes of The Traitors: New Blood Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on NBC.
?SIGN UP for Parade’s Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox ?
Talk me through your reaction when your name gets brought up at this most recent Roundtable. Were you taken by surprise?I knew that they were coming for my f—king wig. Because every single time I walked into a room, people hit the decks like someone yelled “Gun!” Like there was gunshots every time I entered the room. For probably two days before that Roundtable, people wouldn’t f—king sit down and have strategy talks with me. I think the last time someone sat down with me was Katie before the previous Roundtable where we voted for Sherry. People wouldn’t talk to me, and I’m sorry. I look pretty good. I’m pretty likable. Why doesn’t anyone want to sit with me at breakfast? How come nobody wants to go have a little chat with me? Suddenly, I’ve got all this free time to enjoy the paintings in the castle!And so I knew going into that Roundtable, especially because the “Dolls” [alliance] hadn’t met in quite a minute, that something was going on. And Clyde and Ben, God bless them, they’re not particularly brilliant with the gameplay. I don’t think I was particularly surprised to find out that they were coming for me. They were not particularly subtle. I would say they were quite club-footed with it.Let’s talk about “The Dolls” alliance you had with Abbey B., Ben and Clyde. How much of an out-and-out “alliance” was it? What was your reaction to them turning on you?I think I very much thought that there was cohesion to the Dolls meeting and conspiring against me behind my back. I think that is an attribute I ascribed to them quite generously. When actually this was quite an off-the-cuff, non-strategic, downright stupid decision to banish me. If I’m a f—king Traitor, why are you banishing me?! We’re in an alliance together. That’s how you get to the end! Are you dumb? So I think that this was literally the machinations and the emotional turmoil of Ben and Clyde. They never f—king talked to Abbey about whether or not they’re going to banish me. I assumed they all were coming together to vote together. That they had talked about me all day when nobody would sit down with my ass, so I was kind of like, “What do you mean you guys didn’t actually sit down and talk?” After we wrapped, I found out from Abbey; she was like, “Yeah, they never talked to me about that vote.” So for me, I’m like, “Oh, I absolutely should have just eaten you alive at the Roundtable then!” Because I assumed that this was a foregone conclusion when it wasn’t. That’s my bad.What did you make of the logic people were using at the Roundtable, saying that you would be the perfect type of person to be recruited as a Traitor?I think your question’s quite generous using the word “logic.” I don’t think Ben and Clyde could punch their way out of a f—king paper bag. Thank God Ben works with animals because people.,I don’t know if he’s so good with them. I think that there’s something really fascinating about the logic that they used. I think it’s like making two left turns down the wrong-way street. I guess eventually you kind of end up going the right way. But I don’t think that there was any logic to it. I think it was confused emotions, and I think that they mistook my confidence for traitorousness. That is not at all something that is true. So I think their logic, I’m not even going to try and follow it. Because it wasn’t logic, and I don’t really want to confuse myself.Well, let’s talk about your own line of logic. You were admant from the beginning that Victor was a Traitor, coming after him for sweating when the blindfolds came off. What made you so suspicious of him?I still think Victor’s a Traitor! That guy’s a f—king Traitor. I swear to God. I’m not kidding, Mike. There’s gonna be a f—cking twist. Then he’ll be like the Secret Traitor or some s—t. That guy was so suspicious. Why are you sweating so much? That room is f—king freezing. That wool sweater in that first episode. I’m not kidding. I could have worn that in a New York winter with no jacket and been warm. And I’m a sweaty Greek man! I’m sweaty too. I’m like a huge man in a wool sweater. He’s in a T-shirt. Why is he sweating looking so nervous? If you are not a Traitor and you’re not that, and you’re that sweaty, that nervous, you got to see the doctor. So I don’t know what was going on with that. He was acting so suspicious. Something weird going on with him and Jay. He was just acting so shady. And he had no credibility in the castle. No one wanted to actually have gameplay chats with him. And even though he was right about who the Traitors are, he could never whip a vote together. So if a tree falls in the woods, baby, no one’s around to hear it, maybe work on your social game a little bit more, and people will actually want to sit down with you, hear what you have to say. But nobody wants to sit down with you. That’s kind of on you, hun.Who else was on your radar as a Traitor by the time you left?So I thought the murder in plain sight — which was very stupid, by the way, with the apple. Clyde is allergic to fruit. Why are we throwing fruit at people if we have someone who’s allergic? Why is there food? Why is anything related to food? We’ve got vegans, we’ve got celiac, we’ve got everything. Tomica’s a vegetarian. Is it throw a steak at somebody and then they get murdered, that doesn’t make any f—king sense. So everything in previous seasons was a chalice, a brooch. It was a painting on the wall. It’s always something in the universe of the Traitors. It’s never food or drink. So why is it food? It made no sense. So while this was all happening, Victor and Abby L. were like, “Oh, there’s a murder in plain sight.” And I thought that was them double bluffing, trying to cover the fact that they were Traitors and do the actual murder. Because they were trying to have us focus on the apple so much that I was like, “No, this is not making a lot of sense.” Abby, while she was doing that, was playing with the sundial in the kitchen. And I was like, “Well, sundial, that is something. If you create a distraction, do what you need to do with the sundial to murder somebody, and then you have everyone focus on the fruit.” We were eating at all times. We’re in that castle all day, all night. So, to use food as a cover, I assumed it was Victor being an idiot, which he had proven himself to be time and time again before that. I assumed that was just a distraction from the actual murder, which would make more sense if it were something talismanic from the universe of Traitors, not an apple.Well, let’s get into the apple tosser himself: Joe. It’s clear you had a bond with him in the castle, even calling him an “important emotional touchstone” for you. Talk to me about your relationship and your reaction to him being a Traitor.Everyone in that castle is a f—king idiot. I know Joe from real life now. He is my good Judy. He’s my boy. He’s my bestie. I talk to him every day. I have dinner with his wife and his kids. We go on double dates with my husband and his wife. He’s my boy from Long Island, not the castle. I know him from post-filming, so we are besties now. I talk to him more than I talk to my own family. At the time in the castle, when we were filming, it was really interesting to sort of come across someone like Joe. I think he and I are quite similar in that we’re quite sensitive emotional players. And I did not expect to find that in a straight dude from Long Island in his 40s. That was very surprising for me. So I had a blast playing with him. I loved strategizing with him. I really don’t give a s—it that he was a Traitor. I actually think it’s like more impressive that he was. And after we finished filming, after I went home, I got a call from production that I had a message from Joe. That he wanted me to know that everything that happened in the castle between the two of us was very real. That his love for me, that his support of me, and that conversation around my sexuality, being alone as a gay kid, was all very real. It was like a lovely British person calling me to let me know about this person who’s still in the game after I’m banished. I’m unpacking my suitcases. I got a call because I met Joe on the train. I don’t know this guy. I only knew him in the castle. I don’t have his phone number. I don’t know his last name. I don’t know his Instagram. I can’t find this person. I just had this crazy emotional journey with. So to get that phone call while he’s still in the game, I was like, “Oh, he’s a real one.” Because he knew, “Michael just found out I’m a Traitor. I would never want him to think that his sexuality and our conversation around his sexual orientation and his support of me was gameplay. I couldn’t live with myself if Michael was walking around New York right now thinking that this was gameplay.” And so he made production call me at home on a late-night WhatsApp phone call. So that’s how you know you got a real bad bitch in your life, and he’ll always be a part of my life.My best friend killed himself when I was a teenager. So that conversation around my sexuality when I was with Joe, when I’m talking about how lonely it was to be the only gay kid. When I’m talking about how lonely it was to figure out that I was gay, have a best friend who was also gay, and then that person dies so suddenly. This was at a time we didn’t have representation. We didn’t have the first Queer Eye yet; this was like 2003. I didn’t have anything to look to. We didn’t really have the internet, so I was very, very alone when I figured out when I figured out my sexuality. And I was surrounded by people like Joe who looked and sounded like him. So to be there with him in that moment, to have him defend me so fiercely. I mean, we really only see Victor come for me at the Roundtable. Everybody [was]. Clyde had been bringing my name up every single Roundtable. Clyde, my own alliance member, brought up my name! So it was so hard for me to be surrounded by so many queer people who were f—king coming for me, eating me alive. When I grew up so alone and figuring out my sexuality all by myself, going through the horrendous grief of your best friend killing themselves, no one really understanding why that grief was so real, because of my sexuality, because I was the only other f—king gay person I had ever met. To then turn around and have someone like Joe have my back. Someone who looks and sounds like every homophobic asshole that I’ve ever encountered in my youth, was extraordinarily healing in a way that I’m still coming to terms with. I mean, we send each other letters! We are there for each other. I take a two-hour Uber ride to his house because I don’t drive. Having someone like that in your life, I was not ready for it. I was not ready to meet someone like that in the castle. And I did, and I’m forever grateful for it. So I hope all the Faithfuls f—king die in a fire, and I hope Joe wins.
Related: ‘The Traitors: New Blood’s Sherry Kuehl Says Jay is Playing ‘Selfishly’ and ‘for the Cameras’ (Exclusive)
Hence then, the article about the traitors new blood s michael foote goes off on cast after shocking backstab i hope the faithfuls die in a fire exclusive was published today ( ) and is available on Parade ( Saudi Arabia ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( ‘The Traitors: New Blood’s Michael Foote Goes Off on Cast After Shocking Backstab: ‘I Hope The Faithfuls Die in a Fire’ (Exclusive) )
Also on site :
- The Hollywood Reporter, Animation Is Film Festival Partner on Live Animation Roundtable With Bill Hader, Travis Knight, More
- ‘Street Fighter’ Cast Guide: All the WWE Stars, UFC Champs and Celebs Playing Video Game Fighters in the Live-Action Movie
- How Danny Bonaduce Is Turning Record Store Bargain Bins Into a Sweet Surprise for ‘Partridge Family’ Fans