“Welcome to the game. This is a game of social survival. In this game the rules are simple but unfair.”
These were the words from 'The Cube' when twelve excited and confused celebrities arrived at Nesøya's 'Spillet' villa in Asker – without really knowing what they had agreed to take part in.
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A few weeks after the “game” begins, there is still a lot of confusion among the participants, who never know for sure who they can trust and who they cannot. But if there's one person they can trust to tell them what's going to happen along the way, it's The Cube.
But who is actually hiding behind the “cube”? It seems that very few people know this.
Keeps identity hidden
On social media, there are many who are speculating whether the sound of the “cube” is real or generated by artificial intelligence.
TV 2's press director, Jan Peter Dahl, can answer this question:
-We think it's good that there's a lot of interest and speculation about “the game” in general and SoundCube in particular. We can confirm that there is a person behind the audio, but we do not want to reveal the person's identity. The cube must be allowed to be the cube, without this being tied to a specific person, as the press director explains in a comment to Nettavisen.
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So Dahl can confirm that there is someone behind the “cube,” but he doesn't want to say who.
– I don't know
Participant Line Andersen (50 years old) copes well with the fact that the identity of the “cube” remains unknown.
– I'm not really interested in that. I have a good relationship with the cube, it's part of my experience, so for me that sound is the cube,” she shares with a laugh.
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When Nettavisen asked her if she had any doubts or names to ask, she replied:
– No, I have no idea. But I think we would have heard it if we had known the sound. She says it could be anyone.
Although she doesn't know who's hiding behind it, Andersen says she still feels connected to the sound of the cube.
– The three voices that came every time we were together still stirred something in me as if I was back home in Nissoya. “I like the cube for what it is,” she says.
However, she did not always appreciate it:
– It bothers us, and it will bother us more. I think I'll call her a psychopath at some point.
“And I'm very sorry about that now, in retrospect,” Andersen smiles.
– shock
On the other hand, Victoria Skau (25 years old) provides a name when Nettavisen asks her what she thinks about the identity of the “cube”.
– I hope it's Solveig Kloppen, I love her, she laughs.
On the other hand, Martha Levenstad (30) has no confidence in Skow's theory, and doesn't think she's a celebrity at all.
– I think it was a random woman in a random office where someone said, “You have a bit of a funny voice,” she says.
-So I don't think he's a celebrity. Or maybe? “I have no idea,” Levstad adds.
However, she likes the concept of an “invisible” announcer, because it makes the show different.
– It's fun to just be a thing, because it's so easy to get cursed by the presenter. While there is no one here to be disturbed, we just have to do whatever we are told.
She adds, “But my relationship with her is a bit painful.”
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