How they choose castaways
Tens of thousands of people apply to be on the show, and casting producers end up mixing the bunch Survivor They gain a following of people who usually become models or actors. However, these recruited players must go through a full casting process.
“Believe it or not, we get a lot of applications from the same people year after year,” former casting director. Lynn Spillmanwho was on the show from the beginning until 2018, said reality is wanted.
Now, master Jeff Probst is casting processing.
“It usually happens like this,” he said Entertainment Weekly. “We get on Zoom and they start telling us about their lives. Often the first few minutes I think the same thing… “How did they already manage to do so much at such a young age, and what was I doing when I was 24 years old?!?”
After this, there will be several more rounds, including a meeting with the show's psychologists. “Our only goal is to find out who they really are,” Probst explained. “That’s one of the things I try to emphasize to people applying for the program. Survivor. You don't have to be anything other than who you are. It sounds so simple, but it's the absolute truth. You don’t need an emotional underdog story, you don’t need to be the funniest person in the room, you don’t need to have a college degree, you don’t need to be anyone other than yourself.”
