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Willem Dafoe as Klaus in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Klaus is Zissou’s emotionally fragile first mate, a role that Dafoe digs into with real exuberance.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
Owen Chase, portrayed by Hemsworth in In the Heart of the Sea, was the first mate aboard the Essex.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
Daffy Taffy Amy Sedaris’s wellness mogul character Bethany Welles gifts the captain and crew her special saltwater taffy … which turns out to have psilocybin in it, causing the first mate to trip balls just as the Odyssey finds itself in the eye of a hurricane.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025
Dellinger said 1018’s first mate died in 2010 after an alligator bite.
—Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2025
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 12 June 2025
Owen Chase, portrayed by Hemsworth in In the Heart of the Sea, was the first mate aboard the Essex.
—Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
Daffy Taffy Amy Sedaris’s wellness mogul character Bethany Welles gifts the captain and crew her special saltwater taffy … which turns out to have psilocybin in it, causing the first mate to trip balls just as the Odyssey finds itself in the eye of a hurricane.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2025
Dellinger said 1018’s first mate died in 2010 after an alligator bite.
—Natalia Jaramillo, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2025
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“First mate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/first%20mate. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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