Jason Momoa is a hard man to pin down.
Momoa is a little more than halfway through an eight-month shoot in New Zealand for an Apple TV+ show called Chief of War. Momoa cowrote, codirects, and stars on the nine-episode series, which tells the quasi-historical story, from an Indigenous perspective, of a Hawaiian chief in the late 1700s who tries to unite the warring islands in order to save them from the threat of colonization. When we finally connect by Zoom after some serious wrangling, it's midnight in New York and 5:00 P.M. Kiwitime; his assistant hands him an iPad as he walks off the set after wrapping an epic scene, which explains why he's wearing only a malo (a traditional Hawaiian loincloth) and a shit-eating grin with a swollen top lip. He uses a wipe to clean his sweaty face; dabs different members of the crew; and after lots of "Love you, bros" and "Love you, dudes" is ushered into a car that will whiz him back to his base camp in Auckland while we talk.
This story is from the May - June 2023 edition of Men's Health US.
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