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Survivor 30 Elimination Interview: Reality Wanted Exclusive With Vince Sly

Posted on 03/06/2015 by Elizabeth in Survivor and Cast InterviewsGeneral News

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By Andy Sloan

 

After 6 days in the game of Survivor, the Coconut Vendor from Santa Monica, California became the 2nd castaway to get the boot. I got the chance to talk to Vince Sly about his gameplay, Nina's game changing comments to Will and what actually happened between him and Jenn. It's an interview you'll want to read!

 

Q: Lets go all the way back to beginning. It's the first day in the game and Jeff announces that you're on the No Collar Tribe. Looking around at your tribe, what's going through your mind?


Vince: I'm not saying there couldn't be one or 2 people that could be swapped, but for the most part I looked around and saw that we're interacting in a way their not. Blue Collar and White Collar weren't joking around the way we were. It's not necessarily being a hippie, hanging out kind of person. It's someone who is motivated by something greater than money. Something that's more enriching and lasts longer. If money didn't exist, we'd be doing the same thing. I feel like White/Blue Collar, most likely they wouldn't. Here's some people that have that kind of smile, that kind of energetic output.

 

Q: You hit of off with Jenn right off the bat and then last night you were voting each other out. Can you give me a step-by-step of what happened with this relationship?


Vince: When we first get out there, the immediate connections, first conversations, jokes and excitement if matched by another person, you just feel it. You know it right away. After an hour or two hour of conversations with people, you get to a point where you just know. It's like making eye contact with someone across the classroom and you just know you're going to be friends with them.

 

There are definitely elements about Jenn that were that for me and I feel like I was that for her. Things change day 2, day 3, day 30. The longer you're out there, the more crazy the environment becomes. Your world becomes smaller and you start to only think about what is right in front of you.

 

It was never a crush on Jenn, I know the first episode really showed that. It showcased me as having this crazy, hopeless crush on Jenn and Joe is kind of like "I'm gonna fix stuff." By my perception was very different. I appreciate the narrative for TV purposes and it was humorous to watch on TV. What you saw was the end of an hour and a half conversation and then the second conversation was like day 4. These weren't linear, but I'm not saying they weren't real conversations and reactions. I had to ask Jenn "do you really have feelings for Joe" because if we're in an alliance together, I want to trust you. I just need to know if you have feelings for Joe. Whether she verbally admits to it or not, I'll be able to see it in her body language and then I can start changing my gameplay related to that.

 

Was I jealous she had a crush on Joe, or a better connection with Joe? No I wasn't. What I was privy to was that she does have a better connection with Joe and they have a very tight bond with Hali. That's a three pack. In a tribe of 6 that's dangerous. So I did everything I could to break it up.

 

Q: I definitely appreciate that! Lets actually talk about that right now. Last night you got voted off and I thought you had Will's vote. What happened? After he talked to Nina it seemed like everything switched.


Vince: Yeah. Will was on board with all my wacky, crazy, zaney stuff up to a certain point. I have no idea what he was really thinking. When you go back into what it was like to have no sleep, no food in a stressful environment, what were your actual reactions? In retrospect I would do things differently to him. I know that there were things I said that triggered him. I then had time to recover from that. We'd talk about family, we'd talk about kids and then we'd get back on the same page.

 

This unfortunately was the worst possible time for me. Right before we went to tribal (Nina) dropped this. She just lit the fuse to this bomb and you could see his whole temperament change. I feel like he was onboard with me right up to the point where she said that and he was like man, Vince wants me out.

 

Q: When you were at tribal could you sense that from him?


Vince: At tribal, man, first of all I was in mutual and simultaneous awe, amusement, shock, fear. I had so many severe emotions happening, it was just kind of like blackout mode. The only thing that I meditated and focused on was don't have any reaction. Be as neutral as possible, be as calm as possible and don't stir the pot anymore.

 

I saw an opening with Will to reinforce that we are still on the same page and I would never vote him out. There's no reason; it doesn't make any logical sense at all, yet it wasn't presented in a way where I could say that and not have Joe, Jenn and Hali realize instantly that they need to put all the votes on one person.

 

Q: The makes perfect sense. Touching on this Joe/Jenn/Hali alliance, was there ever a time where you considered teaming up with Joe? I would make the argument that you are both the most physical on the tribe.


Vince: No doubt! That was initially what I wanted to do. It's just that emotions come into play in this game. That's one of the cool parts of it. You're under such extreme stresses, things come up and the weakest part of your personality is probably the most pronounced. As with the case of Joe, I tried many times to team up with him and be like "Man we could be like superheroes. All of your capacity, talent and skills and all of mine could team up and crush this whole thing."

 

At some point therein, he just started to bother me or irk me the wrong way. I hadn't slept in a couple of days and he would lose tools, things would go missing and I tried to have order. It ended up being like a father/son kind of dynamic and he really wasn't keen on that. I wanted to have some order because I didn't want to ask him where the hatchet was every 15 minutes and he didn't like having someone tell him what to do. He already had the girls on his side and he just felt invincible. I needed to change that power dynamic.

 

Q: Looking at your remaining tribe members, who do you think is playing the best game?


Vince: Jenn. Jenn and Joe are mutually playing the best game on the tribe. The thing is this, I like aggressive players. I'm an aggressive player and come out full force all the time in everything that I do. I'm an intense person and I appreciate playing with mutually intense people. Who wants to watch a boring game of Survivor? Survivor is all about intense, dramatic things happening.

 

The passive player, the Will position, just doesn't appeal to my Survivor fanship. Where as I like somebody else who is willing to cut the head off the snake, like Jenn said. That's where I was at. She and I were going at it with each other. Joe and I had a Cold War scenario going. I had Nina with the fake idol and he had the Cuban Missile Crisis with Jenn.

 

I don't like watching a boring game and Jenn was aggressive and willing to go for it.

 

Survivor airs on Wednesdays at 8pm ET on CBS. Be sure to check out the elimination interview again next week. Who will it be?

 

Photo credit: CBS

 


  


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