The female contestants truly didn’t know until the final day that they had a secret third option.
Warning: This article contains spoilers from theFBoy Islandseason 2 finale.
They needed to keep quiet on the Cayman Islands set.
Tamaris Sepulveda brought a major twist to ‘FBoy Island’ in season 2.HBO Max
The cameras were still rolling, after all.
But the crew couldn’t help themselves.
“I came here as a… FGirl,” she revealed.
Tamaris Sepulveda on ‘FBoy Island’ season 2.HBO Max
“I’ll say that we knew that we wanted to do the twist.
That being said, we did not cast Tamaris specifically for the twist,” Dixon tells EW.
It just so happened that by the time we got there it was like, ‘Wow!
Niko Pilalis returns from elimination in the ‘FBoy Island’ season 2 penultimate episode.HBO Max
This might make a lot of sense.’
And Tamaris was like, ‘Oh yeah.
Let’s do that.'"
But the producers introduced a twist in season 2.
(Emig had chosen Morosky in the season 1 finale only to see him choose the money over her.
Glaser then surprised him by saying the money will instead go to a charity of Emig’s choosing.)
“Wewanted this to happen, but it was hope on our part,” she continues.
Tamaris, for example, was the person we thought was most likely to do that.
But she also had two Nice Guys, so she was gonna get money, regardless."
Only a “tight circle” of people knew the finale rule change was coming, according to Dixon.
Again, she kept mum.
“It’s to protect them, too,” Dean says of her fellow producers.
So, does this new twist change the course of the show moving forward?
That said, shouldFBoy Islandseason 3 move forward at HBO Max, Dixon feels they could go anywhere.
It’s really having that continual conversation.
We can’t just be arrogant producers that think we have it ‘cause we don’t have it.
We have to keep pushing and we really rely on the cast and audience with those ideas."
That’s partly how the FGirl twist came about.
Dean recalls the auditions for season 2.
The women, in particular, came in with ideas for strategy the producers hand’t heard of before.
“Many women were having that conversation naturally about, ‘I’ve seen myself as an FGirl.
I love the term.
I think it’s empowering.
We wanna claim it,'” Dean recalls.
“It was a really interesting social twist for us, really observing what was happening.
And people wanted it.
The Sepulveda twist, however, was not like the twist with Niko Pilalis.
She, in turn, revealed that she was still into him.
She chose to eliminate Tom Carnifax (and his diary).
They also saw how much Sepulveda brought up Pilalis in passing.
She even asked the producers multiple times if she could bring him back some way.
Neither knew the Mansplain would afford both of them that opportunity.
Pilalis just knew that the Mansplain was his final chance to tell her how he feels.
“Nikki’s an EP on this show.
“She felt that moment, too.
She’s like, ‘I hear her going down the road.
We can roll, baby.
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