Trending badgeTrendingPosted 1 hour agoI Genuinely Cannot Watch "The Traitors" The Same Way After Learning These 17 Fascinating FactsThat castle has "hundreds and hundreds" of acres of land for the cast to explore.by Lauren GarafanoBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink Season 4 of The Traitors is back in full swing, and suffice to say, everyone is OBSESSED. Peacock / Euan Cherry/Peacock Here are 17 behind-the-scenes facts about the series that you probably didn't know, but definitely should: 1. The original concept for the show was to take place on a ship. Then, as the contestants lost, they'd have to "jump into the water and swim to an island." That idea was scrapped when creator Marc Pos realized it'd be too hard to produce. Peacock / Euan Cherry/Peacock 2. The cast doesn't reside in Ardross Castle, even though the show makes it seem like they do. Peacock / Euan Cherry/Peacock Host Alan Cumming told The Daily Beast that they actually get their own rooms in a hotel near Inverness Airport. 3. The castle grounds have "hundreds and hundreds" of acres of land, so all the various Traitor sets were built there. But they have to be careful when building so that the contestants don't know what's coming. Peacock / Euan Cherry/Peacock Producer Mike Cotton told Variety, "It's like a Traitors theme park. I often think we can open our own Disney World. Because if you get into the castle grounds, there's hundreds and hundreds of acres of land - it's got its own river, it's got its own hills, it's got its own church - that we take over and build all these various things."Producer Sam Rees-Jones added, "We have to be really careful because, for example, we put 150 or 200 scarecrows in a field, but that's on the castle grounds. So we have to be careful with the logistics of bringing the cast in so they don't see that, or they don't see our burial plot, because that gives away what's coming." 4. While the cast is not allowed to roam the entire castle (mainly because it's not fully renovated), they have free rein in the show's designated wing. PEACOCK / Euan Cherry/PEACOCK Mike Cotton explained, "We've taken a wing of the castle, and that's their area that they can play the game within. They've got all the outside as well. They're free to roam around. It's a really old building, and there's parts of it that are completely unrenovated, that haven't been touched for many, many years. At one point, it was occupied during the war by the Navy. It's fascinating, because it's got so much history to it. I can't estimate the square feet, but it's got the potential for 30 bedrooms in reality. A lot of it is unconverted." 5. When the players arrive, ALL of their personal belongings are taken away - anything used to communicate, chargers, watches, passports, wallets, money, and more. Peacock / Euan Cherry/Peacock 6. While it's technically a reality TV show, there are no hair and makeup teams on set. So, players have to do their own glam if they want to. Peacock / Euan Cherry/Peacock Season 3 player Chrishelle Stause told Us Weekly, "I would've died to have glam in the castle, but Alan [did] not allow us to. ... At least with Selling Sunset, you get to sit in a chair and have glam." 7. To avoid pre-shooting alliances, the players don't know who else is in the cast until they arrive in Scotland. But once they've arrived, they each receive a cheat sheet of the cast and a journal to take notes. Peacock / Euan Cherry/Peacock "You don't want them to be able to research each other," Traitors casting director Deena Katz told Time, "or talk to each other or form alliances before." 8. Contestants don't actually get to choose their status as a Faithful or a Traitor. Peacock / Euan Cherry/Peacock However, Season 2 was the first time that players could plead their case with Alan in hopes of being assigned their preference. Mike Cotton also told Variety, "Alan does these chats with them, sitting down and asking them if they'd like to be a Traitor and why. That has a really big bearing on it, as does Alan's opinion. It's almost like a job interview to be a Traitor, and we take all of that into account and decide just before the pick who that should be. We want to make sure we've got an interesting mix of characters that will bring their own unique skill set to it." 9. And producers actually give each contestant a personality test that could determine which status would best fit them. But ultimately, no one knows who the Traitors are until Alan taps them on the shoulder. Peacock / Euan Cherry/Peacock "We see attributes that might make someone a good liar or particularly deceptive. We actually don't know who the Traitors are until that pick, where Alan walks around and taps them on the shoulder," said Mike Cotton. 10. And the contestants actually don't even know how many Traitors there are in each given cast. Peacock / Euan Cherry/Peacock Season 1 contestant, Cirie Fields, explained, "We knew that there could potentially be three to five Traitors in the g