Jason Momoa

It's about the unification of the Hawaiian Islands.

I mean, it's just, it's never happened before, you know?

These images, my great-great-great-grandfather has never even seen anything like this.

So we've only had these in paintings or in museums.

So nothing has ever existed like this.

Yeah, I know nothing about it.

Yeah, so it's just like wanting to make something about King Kamehameha and just like,

but I needed something that would encompass a lot of things that were going on.

It's like telling Abraham Lincoln's story, and you're like, that's why Spielberg did Gettysburg.

It's just the little moments of his life, but it's like, how do I encompass this whole area of Hawaii?

And this character helped me do that.

I mean, I think when Cook first came, they were kind of blown away.

And what happened is, I think—

You know, he left.

They kind of snuck onto the ship and maybe took a couple things.

And then they executed one of them, I think.

Yeah.

And that pissed everybody off.

And so they left.

And when they got stuck in a storm, they came back.