Meet the Cast
Owen Chase
Owen Chase is one of the trickiest guys to understand in the whole of In the Heart of the Sea. On the one hand, we really want to dislike the guy—he sometimes seems like an unholy mixture of ever...
Captain George Pollard Jr.
Let's be real: George Pollard Jr. was probably never meant to head a whaleship. He's more Captain Kangaroo Captain Jack Sparrow, which is just about the last thing you want from a guy in charge of...
Thomas Nickerson
It's easy to forget that Thomas Nickerson is only fourteen years old when he joins the crew of the Essex. We don't know about you, but when we were fourteen, the only thing we did was play Pokémon...
Owen Coffin
Though he meets a gruesome and untimely end (in the bellies of his uncle and best friends, no less), young Owen Coffin does a lot of growing over the course of In the Heart of the Sea.At first, Cof...
The Crew of the Essex
There are a lot of guys on the Essex who don't exactly become main characters, but they're still worth mentioning. Some of these guys meet gruesome deaths. Some of them abandon their comrades. Some...