Jason Momoa
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I'd rather make my movies and I like them small.
I don't want to direct like a massive โ this is probably the biggest it will ever be.
Like when I directed Chief of War, I directed four or five units.
So you might have asked this earlier, Will, like a crazy story about Chief of War.
When we first wrote it, the whole finale is about these two cousins fighting over the big island.
And the volcano goes off in history, and it's literally snowing ash, and the volcano's coming down.
And the volcano, it's kind of like, let's just say it's 50,000 versus 10,000.
And the volcano comes down and wipes out the persons who lives in that territory.
So when we wrote this, I literally saw on the calendar in the production meeting, I go, boom, volcano is going to go off.
And everyone's laughing at me like, no, no, no, it's not going to go off.
We're driving between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea.
And I tell my partner, I'm like, bro, it's going to go off.
And about four hours later, production calls.