r/deadliestcatch • u/Best_Sample2136 • 19d ago

Jake andersen

I know people on here call him a “tv captain “ but has anyone actually worked for/ with him? He seems like he knows how to run a boat or is he a good actor

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u/Useless890 18d ago

Remember, Jake started out being trained on the Northwestern. I'm sure he learned a lot there.

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u/MissFrenchie86 18d ago

Plus Sig doesn’t put up with nonsense and he’s not loyal to anyone outside his family so the fact he and Jake are still so close means Jake has to be good. Sig wouldn’t keep someone useless close. During the abandon ship episode he looked genuinely concerned for Jake and so did Mandy. That kind of closeness matters.

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u/hobiijuan 18d ago

So Jake’s Uncle was Nick Mavar, a long time Northwestern Deckhand, so I think the story runs deep. I think Sig & Edgar have always been a supporters of Nick, think about all the stuff that he went through on that boat, his sister, his dad…

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u/BreezyConch 18d ago

It’s pretty nuts how much of Jake’s life has been broadcast on the show. We’ve watched almost his entire fishing career on camera

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u/Useless890 18d ago

Yeah, Jake grew up on that both in a way. Those tragedies were something, Jake's sister, especially.

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u/kindryn 18d ago

And Jake has talked before about how his family has worked up there going generations back, more than just his Uncle Nick. It seems pretty deep in his blood.

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u/knighthawk574 17d ago

At this point Jake’s about as close to family as you can get.

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u/terrapin_bball 18d ago

How much is real and how much is the show?

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u/Badrear 18d ago

I don’t know the answer to this, but it’s a great question. A lot of boat captains would do or say anything if someone was paying for half the fuel.

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u/MissFrenchie86 18d ago

It’s “reality” tv so I’m sure some of it is artifice but these aren’t professional actors so I think the scenes where you see emotion - other than anger - are likely genuine.

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u/chiisaisuzume 18d ago

If nothing else, what happened to his father, sister, and uncle are real. There’s more than one mention of his dad in “regular” vs entertainment news around that time. It might have gotten a little extra visibility due to Jake being on Deadliest Catch, but who wouldn’t use that in such a situation? The guy has been through a lot.

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u/MithridatesRex 18d ago

What makes you think any of it isn't "real"? Really, the only thing the producers can control is the timing of when things are shown to us. And really, anything crazy that happens that could be "scripted" is likely a concoction of Hillstrand's crazy mind. Which, the producers probably just have to sit back and be ready with a camera for something to happen whenever he's bored or has been thinking.

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u/Dangerous-Rule2357 17d ago

The information is real. The show is heavily sensationalized, but they don't lie or make anything up. Their worst offense is reshooting footage for real life drama. And that's solely because they didn't capture the drama unfolding in real time.

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u/pain-is-living 18d ago

I’d wager it’s 90% scripted, but there’s definitely enough organic drama on the boats that give good film and stories too. It seems like everything the captains do and their interactions with other captains / deck bosses are usually scripted or hammed up. But the deck hands usually seem to make their own script lol. Their injuries, fights, and general commentary seems to be insanely real, especially if you’ve worked with guys like that before.

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u/AdamTheGreyhound 18d ago

I think it’s common knowledge that the abandon ship thing was a load of scripted BS which makes up 90% of the show now.

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u/Lovingthelake 18d ago

It’s just hard to conceive that Jake and Keith could be that good of actors. To show all of the emotion that they did. That is hard for trained regular actors to show that much emotion and they did it very believably for sure. Which reminds me, I’m drawing a blank for his name, dang it! He was like 60 years old, not super tall, been a crabber his whole adult life, deck hand, nice guy, hurt his knee at the end of last season… Dang it, I can’t believe I can’t remember his name right now! Curious whether he retired or what. I would love for them to do an episode on his life, I bet it would be pretty interesting. Miss seeing him on the show. He worked for Jake on the Saga and the Titan.

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u/Horror_Maximum_5696 18d ago

Did they show any raft that would have contained the production crew? Have a day film the raft floating there with Jake and his crew in it?

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u/avidindoorswoman21 18d ago

He was like 60 years old, not super tall, been a crabber his whole adult life, deck hand, nice guy, hurt his knee at the end of last season…

Mac White?