What was going through Drews mind?
We asked the sixth-place finisher all that and more the morning after his televised ouster.
What was his final three plan?
Drew Basile on ‘Survivor 45’.CBS
How does he think he would have done had he gotten there?
And what happened out on the island that we did NOT see.
Read on for answers.
Drew Basile on ‘Survivor 45’.CBS
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So, first off: Who am I talking to?
Is this Drew or is this Basile I have right now?
That game makes you go to your insecurities, your deepest worries by day five.
Drew Basile and Austin Li Coon on ‘Survivor 45’.CBS
And there’s not much to have a party about onSurvivor.
There’s no beer.
All you got is coconut water and no food in your stomach to even things out.
Drew Basile.CBS
Tell me what was going through your mind.
Yeah, it’s funny it projected the anger because I was so humiliated.
But yeah, it was crushing.
Drew Basile on ‘Survivor 45’.Robert Voets/CBS
At Tribal Council, I started to put together from some of the answers that things weren’t right.
So I was really freaking out.
And then watching it back again, there’s that replaying and replaying.
Drew Basile in ‘Survivor 45’ deleted scene.CBS
Did Austin know you were the target or not?
Because it wasn’t 100 percent clear.
Yeah, so talking with him, I don’t think he knew.
This is a moment where Austin and I were out of the loop.
I wasn’t there, right?
Obviously, it was those two talking.
They have their alone time together, but it was an extremely emotional conversation.
So I thought basically the vote leaked that way to Julie.
And if she does that, Emily goes home.
That’s potentially a safe jury vote.
Emily was probably the biggest threat in the game, and so that was an eventuality.
We’re okay with that happening.
Lets play it out.
Lets say Austin does not tell Dee and you go ahead and blindside Julie.
Do you still go next?
No, I don’t.
And I think Jake really valued Emily’s presence.
But I have to tell you, Dalton, I know that you’re a purist of the game.
You’ve been around the block.
I never want to split the vote.
But yeah, obviously Emily going was a problem.
What was your plan for the final three?
Whether that credit would be a plus or minus, who can say?
But I was comfortable going to the end with basically any combination of final three.
And I said in the show, if I got past this vote, I’m going to three.
You talked about how you were mortified and humiliated and devastated after being voted out.
Take me through the rest of the night.
When you go to Ponderosa, does that start to wear off a little bit?
What was it like when you start seeing the rest of the gang over there?
I love everybody on the jury, to be clear.
We get along great in real life.
Okay, you compared yourself and Austin to J.T and Stephen, and Tyson and Gervase.
So my question to you is: Who was J.T.
and Tyson, and who was Fishbach and Gervase?
Jonathan was the greatest physical player, maybe in history, and he was dead.
So sometimes now the jury has a little bit more respect for the Stephens.
So I don’t know if it is a bad thing.
And also, runner up!
That’s a healthy accomplishment.
Oh my God, Fishbach is going to love this.
Alright, you had a lot of analogies this season at Tribal Council.
Did you come up with all those beforehand or were those done on the spot?
No, so this was the only bit of criticism that really rankled me.
People were like, It’s so rehearsed, it’s so rehearsed.
That’s just how I talk.
It was not rehearsed.
But no, I didn’t sit around a camp and come up with witty Tribal Council lines.
The Tribal Councils felt not as a superfluous aspect of the game, but certainly the confessionals did.
Whats something that happened out there we never got to see that you wish had made it on TV?
I felt like Robinson Crusoe.
I felt like someSurvivorguru, like Bear Grylls.
It was a great time.
It was really cool.
That sounds like a natural for thePlaying with the Boys segment.
It’s never that regular in real life.
I don’t know why I would go to my favorite bookstore in the dream.
It would be closed, and it so freaked me out.
Is it still there?
Is it still around?
So yeah, that was probably the funniest dream.
Is that an accurate assessment?
At the end of the game, I was pretty grumpy.
I think that when you’re tall, I’ve heard the food deprivation hits a little bit differently.
It becomes a lot harder.
And I was feeling it in a major way.
Jake is this wellspring of positivity I’m onSurvivor!
But for me, I’m onSurvivor was like a millstone around my neck.
It was like, Oh my god, another day of no food.
Struggling man against man.
I’m trying to think of the Thomas Hobbes Leviathan quote.
But yeah, I was a little grumpy.
