Each weekday, EW will post the answers from a different player.
Getting voted out onSurvivorsucks.
And you know what sucks even more?
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Getting voted out one day before the merge and one slot before the jury.
That cruel fate fell upon Alexis Maxwell onSurvivor: Cagayan.
Ultimately, Alexis was deemed too much of a risk to flip back at the merge and cut loose.
But why was she seen as so likely to flip?
I was a 21-year-old senior at Northwestern at the time.
Since then, I graduated and developed my career in the tech world and am currently working at Uber.
What is your proudest moment ever from playingSurvivor?
It sounds nuts, but it is so real!
What is your biggest regret from yourSurvivorexperience?
Oh, I have a list of regrets from my time onSurvivor,haha.
I definitely played like a rookie even though I was such a fan.
but it definitely surprised me as a viewer that it can be so seamlessly altered.
I guess the only other tea I have was the reason for my vote off.
The problem was, I was NOT going to flip!
(And they got flipped on anyway, haha!)
My dumb moment of thoughtlessness definitely buried me there.
How do you feel about the edit you got on the show?
I was serving facial expressions for days, so that was fun to learn about myself.
Either way, it is an unfortunate approach that I would challenge future cast members to avoid.
What was it like coming back to regular society after being out there?
Was there culture shock or an adjustment coming back?
You know how there are 10 stages of grief?
Well, in my post-Survivorexperience there were at least 10 stages of reacclimating back into the real world.
Whom do you still talk, text, or email with the most from your season?
Everyone who knows me knows I am just notoriously bad at that.
I feel very lucky to have been part ofCagayan.
I still watch every season ofSurvivorand will continue to live-tweet every episode possible indefinitely.
Obviously,Cagayanis my favorite, but I definitely have some close seconds.
They really were entertaining seasons end-to-end.
Who’s one player from anotherSurvivorseason you wish you could have played with or against and why?
So I really don’t know who I would pick!
If you could make one change to any aspect ofSurvivor,what would it be and why?
Bring back more pre-mergers!
So mySurvivorwish is that they dip back into the pool of pre-merge boots for a future season.
Finally, would you play again if asked?
I would play again in a heartbeat.
I still love the game and I learned so much the first time I played.
