Jason Momoa Celebrates His forty sixth Birthday on the Dune: Half Three Set (Unique)

Jason Momoa rang in his birthday with some main profession milestones.

The Aquaman star celebrated turning 46 on Friday, Aug. 1, on the Dune: Half Three set. His birthday additionally marked the premiere of his new Apple TV+ collection Chief of Struggle.

“On my birthday, Chief of Struggle comes out. That is my first day I am doing Dune,” Momoa informed ipromiseyoumedia throughout a latest press day for his new collection. “I am not going to deceive you — July has been like bang, bang, bang, bang. The comedown goes to be brutal.”

One other standout second from July for Momoa was attending to host Black Sabbath’s farewell present. (ipromiseyoumedia spoke with Momoa prior to guide singer Ozzy Osbourne’s loss of life on July 22.)

Internet hosting the live performance in England was “one other 13-year-old Jason second, going like, ‘Wow,'” Momoa mentioned. “Getting to hang around with all my music rock gods and totally different pals was simply pinch-me.”

As for attending to stroll the premiere purple carpet for Chief of Struggle in his native Hawaii on July 18, Momoa mentioned it was “past pinch me — it’s punch me within the face!”

“I do not assume there’s something greater that I’ve ever skilled,” he mentioned.

With Chief of Struggle, Momoa tells the epic historical past of the Hawaiian islands on the flip of the 18th century.

“I really feel like this complete factor has chosen me in a means, like that is my future,” he mentioned. “I do not know how I received to all this, however we’re right here, and I am very grateful. I am dwelling my dream doing what I like to do. To play my ancestors is such a accountability. It’s scary and thrilling.”

Momoa mentioned he and his co-creator Thomas Pa’a Sibbett made Chief of Struggle “for younger Jason and younger Pa’a.”

“Once I’d consider The Final of the Mohicans or Dances With Wolves, these are issues that you simply determine with being Native,” he mentioned. “I’d at all times go, ‘Wow, that’d be cool at some point to have one thing like that.’ All of us grew up with these tales, but it surely was a matter of needing to attend till our careers received to some extent the place we may have just a little extra management.”

Forward of his first day on set of Dune, Momoa shaved his beard for the primary time in six years.

In an Instagram video posted on July 30, Momoa took an electrical shaver to his beard whereas delivering a message about eliminating single-use plastic. 

“Haven’t shaved in six years, and right here we’re once more,” he wrote within the caption.

Momoa’s son Nakoa-Wolf, 16, will be a part of his dad on the Dune: Half Three set.

Momoa, who shares Nakoa-Wolf and daughter Lola, 18, with ex-wife Lisa Bonet, 57, informed Further his son obtained his function “all on his personal.”

“A impolite awakening is what he’s in for,” Momoa joked of his son’s budding appearing profession. “He’s into the workforce for the primary time. It’s going to be good. He did it on his personal. I don’t wish to assist him, and he’s accomplished all of it on his personal, and good for him.”

The one factor that would prime the previous month for Momoa is Chief of Struggle getting picked up for a second season.

“The excellent news is it picks up precisely the place we left off,” he informed ipromiseyoumedia. “We wish it to only proceed proper by means of while you watch. So, we simply received to have individuals watch it and help it and hopefully we are able to go make extra.”

Chief of Struggle premiered with two episodes on Aug. 1 . New episodes debuting weekly on Fridays on Apple TV+.