December
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2023
Gallery: BIG Update

I got behind, then I got sick, and then my laptop committed suicide. So this is a huge update (about 6 months worth).



 







 

 

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[Photoshoots & Portraits] > 2023 Shoots > Set 004 BTS – Jason Uses These Workouts to Prepare For Intense Stunts
[Photoshoots & Portraits] > 2023 Shoots > Set 004 -BTS – Weird Way of Working Out
[Photoshoots & Portraits] > 2023 Shoots > Set 006
[Photoshoots & Portraits] > 2023 Shoots > Set 007
[Photoshoots & Portraits] > 2023 Shoots > Set 008
[Modeling, Advertising, and Promotional Work] > Harley Davidson > 2023 > Photoshoot
[Modeling, Advertising, and Promotional Work] > Max > 2023 > The One to Watch
[Modeling, Advertising, and Promotional Work] > Meili Vodka > 2023 > Ads
[Modeling, Advertising, and Promotional Work] > So Ill x On The Roam > 2023 > Photoshoot
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances Aug 24: The Bungalow Santa Monica Hosts Special Maui Fundraiser Event
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Sep 10: Goodwood Revival 2023
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Sep-Oct: Melli Vodka Revolution Tour
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Oct 28: New Zealand vs South Africa Final -Rugby World Cup France 2023
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Nov 16: Tbe Theight Show with Jimmy Fallon
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Nov 18: Saturday Night Live
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Nov 20: Meili Vodka Event- Hollywood
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Dec 6: “Aquaman 2: The Lost Kingdom” – Beijing Press Conference
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Dec 9: “Aquaman2: The Lost Kingdom” Shanghai Road Show
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Dec 11: “Aquaman 2: The Lost Kingdom” Photocall – London
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Dec 12: “Aquaman 2: The Lost Kingdom” – London Meet and Greet
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Dec 13: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Dec 13: Visiting The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Dec 14: Visiting Good Morning America
[Public Appearances] > 2023 Appearances > Dec 18: “Aquaman 2: The Lost Kingdom”- LA Fan Screening
[Film Productions] > Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom > Behind the Scenes
[Film Productions] > Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom > Posters
[Film Productions] > Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom > Stills
[Film Productions] > Fast X > Screencaps
[Film Productions] > Fast X > Extra: A Look Inside
[Film Productions] > Fast X > Extra: Who is Dante?
[Film Productions] > Fast X > Extra: Open Road
[Film Productions] > Fast X > Extra: When in Rome
[Film Productions] > Fast X > Extra: Shooting in Rome
[Film Productions] > Fast X > Extra: Official “Letty Chases Dante” Clip
[Magazine Scans] > 2023 Scans > 2023 People -July 24
[Magazine Scans] > 2023 Scans > 2023 Empire – Dec




The Fast family is getting even bigger.

The new Fast X trailer gives fans their first look at the beginning of “the end of the road” for the franchise. The latest sequel brings back all our surviving favorites, from Vin Diesel’s fearless Dom Toretto to Sung Kang’s beloved Han Lue. But as is only fitting for the tenth main entry in this long-running series, there are quite a few new faces in the mix.

Who are these new characters? How does Jason Momoa’s villain tie back to the events of Fast Five? Is Brie Larson’s Tess friend or foe? And who is Rita Moreno playing? Let’s break down all the new additions to Dom’s ever-growing family.

Jason Momoa as Dante

Aquaman star Jason Momoa is undoubtedly the biggest addition to the ensemble cast this time around. Unsurprisingly, Momoa is playing the latest villain to threaten the Toretto clan. Equally unsurprising, he’s a character with close ties to another villain from earlier in the series. It really is all about family in this universe.

Momoa’s character is named Dante, and he’s the son of Joaquim de Almeida’s Fast Five character Hernan Reyes. As the trailer reminds us, Dom and Brian stole Reyes’ money by driving a bank vault through the streets of Rio de Janeiro (causing what we can only imagine was hundreds of millions of dollars in damage). That act robbed Dante of both his family fortune and his father, and it seems he’s been plotting against Dom ever since.

“He’s very sadistic and androgynous and he’s a bit of a peacock,” Momoa told Variety. “He’s got a lot of issues, this guy. He’s definitely got some daddy issues.”

It’s probably safe to assume he’s colluding with Charlize Theron’s hacker villain Cipher, as we briefly see her in the trailer, too. Though director Louis Leterrier teased that Cipher may have finally found the one partner too much even for her to handle.

“They are bad news, but one is more afraid than the other,” Leterrier told Empire Online. “One is worse news than the other.”

Fast X is where Dante’s plans come to fruition. He doesn’t want to kill Dom, but make him suffer in the same way Dante has suffered for the past 12 years. Given the ominous way the trailer is framed and the fact that the series is rapidly nearing its endpoint, there’s a good chance at least one of our heroes will meet their end against Dante. After all, we need a good cliffhanger leading into Fast 11.







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[Public Appearances] > 2022 Appearances > Aug 23: “See” Season 3 Premiere
[Public Appearances] > 2022 Appearances > Aug 23: “See” Season 3 Premiere – After Party

 

 

 

 





 

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[Photoshoots & Portraits] > 2022 Shoots > Shoot 004

 

BRITISH GQ: If anyone has the authority to tell us to clean up the planet, it’s Aquaman. So GQ sat down to talk to him about his efforts to rescue the ocean from plastic pollution and (yes, really) maybe even rescuing Timothée Chalamet again in Dune.

Jason Momoa doesn’t exactly love that he keeps dying, if you really want to get into it. “My kids are always like, ‘Are you gonna die again? You always die,” he says, a little forlornly. “I obviously made a name for myself dying so if you see me it’s like, ‘Momoa’s gonna jump on the bomb, I know it!’”

Thus far he has been shot in the head, blown up, smothered, died by suicide, had his throat slashed, and been stabbed in both the stomach and the chest. It was watching his most recent death, in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacular Dune with his 12-year-old son, that really got to him. “It was pretty heart wrenching, cause I was like, ‘I’m right here buddy!’ But he was like, ‘Papa nooooooooo,’ he recalls, howling like a dog at the moon. “I said: ‘Listen dude: if you’re gonna go out, go out big.’”

Which might make it sound as though the Aquaman actor is a mere mortal, but if you saw Jason Momoa walking down the street (and not, say, emerging from the ocean with a trident in his hand, and the
promise of avenging his sea queen mother glinting in his eye) you might still wonder if this towering man didn’t arrive on dry land using a branch of coral as a surfboard, having caught a wave from a kingdom far more exciting than anywhere on planet earth. Some actors inhabit characters nothing like themselves; others play those that seem forged in their own image. Jason Momoa, built like a Land Cruiser, with a tangled mane of dark hair, and wide, open face topped with arched eyebrows, belongs to the latter camp. The army of otherworldly alphas the 42-year-old has played include a barbarian combatant hellbent on revenge (Conan the Barbarian), a Dothraki warlord (Game of Thrones), the warrior leader of the Alkenny tribe (See), a tribesman from planet Sateda in the Pegasus Galaxy (Stargate Atlantis), and, most famously, a majestic sea king (Aquaman).

In the comic books and DC mega movies, Aquaman rules over the kingdom of Atlantis, protecting the planet and all the lands that lurk beneath the surface of the ocean. But lately, Momoa just wants to walk through a shop without seeing a plastic bottle that will end up floating in the sea for the next thousand years.

“Every day there’s a dumpster fire,” he says. “Yes we’re trying to go green but what are the batteries doing? What are we doing to indigenous cultures and what does that mean? I’m not just going to blindly do this, there’s got to be proper laws written around these things. I don’t like bitching, I want to do something. But I feel like I don’t have much time,” he says over Zoom, his voice filled with the mixture of theatrical urgency and wide-eyed sincerity that you’d expect from a superhero at a moment of crisis, the ticking clock of an action movie hurrying him along almost audible in the background.

And to be fair, he’s not wrong. We are speaking in early July when Momoa is in London to shoot Fast and Furious 10. Two weeks from now the UK will witness the hottest temperature on record as motorways bend from the force of the sun and train tracks spontaneously burst into flames.

So he’s doing something. In June of this year Momoa was designated the UN Environment Programme’s Advocate for Life Below Water, working alongside charities and scientists to raise awareness and funding for the triple threat of crises we are facing of climate change, biodiversity loss and extreme pollution. Celebrity activism is often regarded at best as naive do-gooding and at worst as cynical branding. Momoa, though, is genuinely passionate about being Aquaman on screen and off. His advocacy has seen him campaign for reducing single-use plastic pollution, in part by setting up aluminium-bottled water company Mananalu, who remove plastic headed toward the ocean. He’s also collaborated on a range of plastic-free clothing and sporting apparel, from trainers to T-shirts.
Jason Momoa Aquaman and real life superhero is on a quest to save the ocean

So far his quest has seen him make an impassioned speech in front of the UN, and issue a desperate plea to Coca-Cola’s packaging company to start using aluminium to bottle water. This cause is personal to Momoa, because as it happens his origin story is about water, too.

Growing up in the landlocked Midwest, Momoa would stick posters of surfers inside his locker even though the other kids, all of whom looked totally different to him, would make fun of him for being a surfer dude. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii; his mother a photographer with Irish, German and Pawnee tribe ancestry, his father a painter with Native Hawaiian roots. When he was six months old he moved with his mother to Norwalk, Iowa, but growing up still felt the pull of the island he first landed on 4,000 miles away. One summer, Momoa remembers taking a yellow bus that wound its way all the way down to the Florida Keys to study at a marine biology camp and marvel at the creatures that lived beneath waves. “My dad was always in the water, you couldn’t get him out,” Momoa says. “He was a steersman and when I was younger I idolised him and my uncles and my cousins because they’re all surfers.” In the summers when he returned to Honolulu he took part in the Junior Lifeguard Program, which would end up being Method acting-level training for his first big break on Baywatch: Hawaii in the ‘90s, and after finishing high school he returned home to enroll in the University of
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I’m embarrassed to admit I missed this article and photoshoot for a year now lol But here it is!

 


 

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[Photoshoots & Portraits] > 2021 Shoots > Shoot 004
[Magazine Scans] > 2021 Scans > 2021 Men’s Journal – July-August

 

MEN’S JOURNAL: “You eat meat, right?” Jason Momoa asks as we pass through his interim Toronto residence—a three-story Victorian—into the backyard, where two massive tomahawk rib-eyes hiss and smoke over a glowing grill.

“Here, grab one,” he says, snatching up the hunk of meat, childlike grin smeared across his signaturely hirsute face. The intense greeting seems medieval, classic Momoa—downright Dothraki—so I do as Khal Drogo instructs, holding up a smoldering, frenched rib bone just long enough for a selfie.

Checking the photo, Momoa issues the next directive. “We can’t post these,” he says poignantly. “You can see the houses behind us.” It’s odd to hear a man who embodies nomadic warlords and towering superheroes concede to such precaution. But inadvertently revealing your exact location to 16 million Instagram followers is a no-no, whether he’s hanging here or at his actual home in Los Angeles’ Topanga Canyon.

There are other pics that he’s more eager to share, namely of an antique Land Rover just secured in a swap for two vintage Harley-Davidson choppers, a rare trade from his collection. “I usually just hoard everything when it comes to bikes and trucks and cars.”

One might guess as much from the ’36, ’37, and ’39 Harley knuckleheads parked on the grounds. “Those are just my choppers. My other bikes are on the way here,” he admits. “I love them all—knuckles, pans, shovels. They’re all different, they all sound great, and they’re all fucking awesome.”

“When the door to making films began to slowly open, I kicked it in and brought all my friends with me.” Boaz Kroon for Men’s Journal

And though he craves the sound “when you kickstart the bike and the motor growls right back at you,” the self-proclaimed “gas and oil guy” knows it’s a guilty pleasure. As a fierce advocate for ocean health, he’s making the shift to electric. “A lot of my trucks have been converted into e-vehicles,” he says. “I run solar power, and I love Harley’s electric LiveWire. You twist the throttle and jump to 100 miles an hour in three or four seconds. It’s a whole different sport, and there ain’t nothin’ about it except—bravo!”

This sort of full-throttle enthusiasm is Momoa’s true superpower, demonstrating that he’s got more than physical DNA to sustain his rapidly multiplying pursuits. Beyond his most visible presence as an actor, now he’s producing documentary passion projects and even parlaying his ongoing relationship with Harley-Davidson into directing a six-part series spotlighting real riders around the country.

Resplendent in pink shoes and purple pants, Momoa opens his Army-style sweater to reveal the pattern of V-twin motors on a Hawaiian silk shirt—part of a new apparel collaboration with Harley-Davidson. “This is the motor from my first motorcycle, a ’56 panhead with a ’48 springer front end,” he says, noting that he named the bike after his grandmother Mabel. Then, with a jovial turn, he tugs the fly of his pants, also part of the collection. “Not to flash my crotch here, but look, right behind the zipper.” Yep, the lettering on the thin strip of fabric reads, “Aloha.” With a belly
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