Last week, Nate Moore became the eighth person to be eliminated from the “Survivor” island, as season 49 of the reality series hots up. A former MCU producer who had worked on the likes of “Black Panther” and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” he was voted out when Jawan Pitts and Sage Ahrens-Nichols turned on him in an unexpected move.

However, Moore has revealed that he had an endgame in mind if he managed to make it further into the competition. 

Nate Moore Explains His Planned Strategy

Discussing how he might have approached the later stages of “Survivor” season 49 in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Moore detailed what he might have done if he had not been eliminated from the series. In particular, Moore knew that Rizo posed perhaps the biggest threat and had tried to develop a way of beating him. 

“I thought it was going to be hard to beat Rizo,” he reveals. “Rizo is incredibly charming. He has a great story and I was not sure I could beat him. I thought Savannah would’ve been interesting, and again, those were sort of my core two.”

He continued, “The other people I wanted to play with were Sage and MC, actually. I had a conversation with MC where I said, ‘Look, if you trust me, don’t play your idol. I think you’re safe, and I think we can go far in the game.’”

Moore ultimately had to lie to Michelle ”MC” Chukwujekwu in order to protect himself at Tribal Council and this led to a situation where she would no longer work with him. Moore explains further, saying, “So she didn’t trust anything I said when really, I was truthful that I wanted to play with MC.”

His plan would have come down to either going with Rizo and Savannah into the final or betraying them if they decided to become stronger allies with Sophi Balerdi. 

“So my plan was: Let’s get to seven with old Uli, Sophi, and MC, and then maybe I would have to pick a path. Do I think I can get to the finals with Rizo and Savannah? I wouldn’t mind it. If I felt like Rizo, Savannah, and Sophi were too tight, then at least I would have numbers if I had to flip the game with MC, Jawan, and Sage, was what I was thinking in my head. But obviously, life had different plans.”

Nate Turned Down An Immunity Idol

Moore also recently revealed that he could have avoided his elimination if he had accepted an offer from Rizo to play his immunity idol for him. That would have protected him at Tribal Council and ensured someone else was removed from the competition. 

Moore, Rizo, and Savannah knew that one of the three of them would likely be the one to face elimination and Rizo had suggested he could play his idol to keep one of them safe. 

“Rizo offered to play it for me,” says Nate. “He was like, ‘Look, if I feel it….’ And I, very dumbly, was like, ‘Don’t do that, man. You got to save it for yourself!’ And I remember Savannah asking Rizo if he would play it for her, and he said, ‘Maybe.’”

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