Dylan Efron Opens Up about Brother Zac's Response to Bob the Drag Queen's Zinger

Warning: This article contains spoilers for "The Traitors" season 3.

"The Traitors" star Dylan Efron paused on the red carpet to talk about how his brother, actor Zac Efron, responded when fellow contestant Bob the Drag Queen zinged him as "not a good" actor.

"You know, he's a good sport," Dylan said. "He laughed about it. He told him to watch 'Baywatch,'" the Seth Gordon-directed 2017 movie version of the '80s television show in which Zac plays Matt Brody.

The younger Efron has got game. On "The Traitors," Dylan is so good at parsing who is who that he sussed out early that Bob the Drag Queen was a Traitor – one of several players secretly assigned to sow distrust among the non-Traitor cast members, known as the "Faithful," in a bid to get them to vote each other off the show. The Traitors also whittle down the Faithfuls' numbers by "murdering" them one at a time, removing them from the game in the middle of the night.

It was when Dylan confronted Bob with his suspicions that Bob lashed out, telling Dylan that his brother Zac was "not a good" actor in response to Dylan saying that he knows when people are acting, his brother being an actor.

It's a skill Dylan reiterated in remarks to Cosmopolitan for a profile the magazine did on the 33-year-old breakout star.

"As a Faithful, I didn't need to act," Dylan noted. "If someone accused me of being a Traitor, I'm genuine in saying that I'm not. So I was looking for anyone that was putting on an act."

"But look, I was playing side-by-side with Danielle [Reyes], who was putting on an act the whole time," Dylan added, "so I can't say the strategy works."

Another swipe from Bob the Drag Queen was labeling Dylan with the faux drag name "Miss Guided" for his suspicions. It was a moniker America took to at once, and Dylan joined in on the fun – even though, he told Cosmo, "I wasn't expecting that. I don't think anyone in America was."

But Dylan succeeded in getting Bob voted off the show... and Bob, forced to confess his Traitorous ways, vindicated Dylan as he departed.

Still, dangers remain and allyship and strategy are key to surviving. So far, Dylan has succeeded, and he's become a new heartthrob for audiences in the process.

"Before 'The Traitors,' Dylan grew a following as a travel influencer with a popular YouTube channel and Instagram page," Cosmopolitan noted, detailing that "[a]s a professional wanderer, he's done it all... 'The Traitors' is just another adventure, akin to jumping out of a plane or swimming with sharks, if the sharks were named Bob the Drag Queen and Tom Sandoval."

The magazine hazarded that prior to his turn on "The Traitors" audiences "probably knew him as Zac Efron's outdoorsy little brother from 'Down to Earth With Zac Efron' (which he produced and appeared in)."

Not that Dylan minds.

"I love my brother," he said in his remarks to the magazine. "I'm so proud of him, and if anything, it's helped me with my career, so I have no issue with people calling me Zac's little brother." Anyway, it's true: Dylan is four years younger than Zac.

Dylan could not spill any of the show's secrets to Variety, of course – not even whether the cast actually sleep in the Scottish castle where the series is filmed. But with his game still going strong, Dylan thought back to his initial idea for his strategy, and why he ended up doing a 180.

"I really wanted to come in, play a quiet game, and fly under the radar," Dylan told Cosmopolitan. "What I didn't expect is how close you get to everybody in the castle." When Wells Adams became a focus for the group's suspicions, "I'm like, 'What'd you say about him?'" Dylan recalled. "I had to speak out, and then the next thing I knew, I couldn't resist, I was just speaking out at every round table."

His most valuable move, though, might have been to challenge Bob and be proven correct. "Get lucky and find one early?" Dylan said to Cosmo when he was asked how to "avoid giving off Traitor energy..."

"That's what I did."

Well, that and his general good guy persona.

"I'm not staring all the time at breakfast – I'm looking at my plate," Dylan said. "I'm focusing on myself. I'm trying not to make anyone feel awkward. So I'm not picking up all those subtle cues in everyone else's game."

So far, it's serving his own game just fine, and America is enjoying watching him do it.