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(CBS) – Survivor 41 is disconnected to the races and “The Monster” wasted nary clip with 2 eliminations during occurrence one. For 23-year-old Sara Wilson it was a speedy travel to paradise arsenic she was the archetypal subordinate of the Ua people voted disconnected pursuing Eric Abraham’s elimination from Yase earlier successful the episode.
CBS’ Matt Weiss spoke to Wilson astir surviving retired a imagination getting to the land and the pressures of puzzle building.
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Full Survivor 41 Episode One Recap
MW- Hello Sara, I cognize you’re astir apt not blessed to speech to me, astatine slightest not this aboriginal connected successful the play but it’s bully to spot you!
SW- [Laughs] No it’s each good, bully to spot you too!
MW- You cognize you did execute thing that not galore radical person oregon ever volition conscionable getting connected the show. As you look backmost connected your acquisition however bash you consciousness adjacent making it to the island?
SW- It’s been a lifelong imagination of excavation and adjacent though it didn’t extremity the mode it hoped I deliberation backmost to the moments of getting the telephone I made it on, sitting connected those boats going to the enactment and those are present immoderate of my halfway apical 10 memories; nary 1 tin instrumentality that distant from maine careless of that outcome. Honestly going during COVID excessively we didn’t cognize if it was adjacent going to happen. It could person easy not happened truthful I’m conscionable truthful blessed and thankful to person been a portion of it and that we were capable to spell retired there.
MW- When you arrived connected the land and took that archetypal measurement connected onshore what’s that infinitesimal like?
SW- Honestly surreal. I mean I’m looking astatine the boat, I’m looking astatine Jeff Probst! I’m like, this is Jeff Probst, that’s him! I’m not kidding I couldn’t judge this was really happening it’s truthful surreal. It was a infinitesimal I thought astir and was waiting for my full beingness and I’m truthful blessed it happened.
MW- Obviously you’re a immense instrumentality truthful you were acquainted with the same, however did you prepare?
SW- I’m a large athlete, I was a h2o polo subordinate and a swimmer truthful I truly banked connected that. I was similar if there’s conscionable 1 swimming situation I’m the miss for it; evidently you didn’t truly get to spot maine usage it truthful that was sad. The intelligence mentation was determination excessively though, I felt truly coagulated astir my strategies to beryllium honest.
I knew however I wanted to play the crippled and it’s besides truly hard to strategize beforehand due to the fact that truthful overmuch of it is babelike connected the full formed and who’s connected your tribe. It was besides truly astir mentally preparing myself due to the fact that I hadn’t near LA successful the full twelvemonth of the pandemic. Now each of a abrupt I’m being flown retired to Fiji, it was precise jarring.
I conscionable prepared myself for that and prepared myself for immoderate of the outcomes that could person happened. Going retired astatine the archetypal tribal was similar worst lawsuit scenario, but I consciousness similar I acceptable myself up nicely to cognize I tin grip this.
MW- I hatred to bring this up but intelligibly the puzzle during the immunity situation was an issue. There are a batch of radical astatine location who sofa backmost and accidental ‘if I was determination I could person done it’ oregon ‘how hard tin it truly be’. Now that you’ve been successful those shoes, what’s it similar being successful that precocious accent concern and trying to acceptable each those pieces together?
SW- You know, it felt similar it was going well. Chen was emptying and I was putting them successful and we had a truly bully bushed with it, past each of a abrupt it conscionable melted. It’s hard due to the fact that I’m truthful competitory and there’s truthful overmuch unit with Jeff Probst screaming astatine you, your teammates are trying to shriek astatine you from down you and it’s truthful hard to enactment level headed.
For america that 1 portion was truthful integral to link the puzzle, it was a precise hard puzzle. I knew thing was incorrect and it was conscionable hard to get past that. I consciousness like. But similar you said arsenic idiosyncratic who is bully astatine puzzles, I’ve decidedly watched the amusement and thought it’d beryllium easier. When you get retired determination you realize, ohio my gosh, it’s mode harder than it looks I committedness you.
MW- And past the chaos didn’t halt there. You spell a unrecorded tribal assembly and everyone is trying to fig retired what to bash next, what’s going done your caput arsenic everything is unfolding each astir you?
SW- Honestly the unrecorded tribal was the champion happening that could hap for maine due to the fact that the ballot was beauteous overmuch locked connected maine earlier we went to tribal. I went into that tribal thinking, I’m 100% going to play my changeable successful the acheronian due to the fact that I don’t person immoderate different chance. Then I benignant of got this thought earlier tribal I mentioned to Chen and Ricard possibly let’s bash Brad.
Brad had enactment our names retired and idiosyncratic virtually tells idiosyncratic they’re going location isn’t idiosyncratic you tin enactment with successful the agelong term. I was truly trying to transportation for it due to the fact that I felt similar that was the lone idiosyncratic I had leverage against. Nothing against Brad, I conscionable needed it to beryllium anyone but me.
When the whispers were happening, retired of the backmost country of my oculus I saw Chen susurration to Ricard saying Brad. I knew they weren’t lying to maine but I besides knew I wasn’t safe.
MW- When that torch goes retired and your clip successful the crippled is implicit did you astatine slightest instrumentality immoderate solace being that adjacent to Jeff arsenic a large fan?
SW- I didn’t adjacent similar admit him [laughs]. I felt similar I was truthful dazed, honestly I consciousness similar I blacked out. I was conscionable similar is this truly happening? You don’t travel to Survivor to get voted disconnected 1 the archetypal council, it’s precise disappointing.
I was precise heartbroken, I was upset, but I knew idiosyncratic had to spell home. I consciousness similar I carried myself with a batch of elegance, a batch of poise and it conscionable is what it is. I’m inactive precise arrogant of myself!
MW- I deliberation I cognize the reply to this already but fixed the chance, would you spell backmost retired there?
SW- Is that adjacent a question?! Of course! [laughs] Going retired determination and getting voted retired early, it sucks but it’s not the extremity of my story, it’s the beginning. It’s virtually fixed maine truthful overmuch occurrence connected the inside, I americium conscionable chomping astatine the spot to get backmost retired there.
MW- Happy to perceive it, you represented yourself precise good retired determination and I’m atrocious the crippled came to an extremity truthful soon but hopefully we’ll spot you backmost retired there. Thanks for the clip Sara and each the champion moving forward!
SW- Thank you truthful much, you too!
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