Learn how Aquaman went from &34;you're never acting&34; to his kid's biggest cheerleader. Jason Momoa bursts with pride watching his son act in Dune: Part Three

Learn how Aquaman went from "you're never acting" to his kid's biggest cheerleader.

Jason Momoa bursts with pride watching his son act in Dune: Part Three: 'He's gonna blow me away'

Learn how Aquaman went from "you're never acting" to his kid's biggest cheerleader.

By Jordan Hoffman

Published on August 16, 2025 04:00PM EDT

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Nakoa-Wolf Momoa and Jason Momoa at the premiere of 'Chief of War' in Hawaii. Credit:

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Jason Momoa made an appearance on the *SmartLess *podcast, piping in from London to promote his new Apple TV+ series *Chief of War*. (He is currently in Budapest shooting *Dune: Part Three*, and was supposed to be in New York, but bad weather put him down in the U.K. for the night.)

He regaled the show's hosts Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, and Sean Hayes with tales of his younger years as a daredevil surfer and how his new Hawaiian-based period adventure series may have caused volcanic eruptions — then he spoke about how we should ready ourselves for a second generation of Momoa action stars.

"He's trained in martial arts his whole life," Momoa said about his 16-year-old son Nakoa-Wolf Momoa, who goes by Wolf.

Jason Momoa as 'Dune''s Duncan Idaho.

"He always wants to act. I'm like, you're not acting. There's no way — I'm not letting you act. He does, like, school plays in Topanga, right? That's it."

Momoa went on to explain that while making Hollywood films at his level is "not digging ditches," it's still "f---ing hard" and described rehearsing fight scenes over and over again in a 40-pound suit.

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To skip ahead a bit, producer Cale Boyter got a look at the kid (whose mother, of course, is Lisa Bonet) and said, "He oughta be in pictures!" Next thing you know, he is cast as Leto II, one of the two twin children of Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya's characters in *Dune: Part Three*. Suddenly, there's a lot of change in the kid's life.

"Bro," Momoa explained, "the premiere of *Chief of War*, we flew to Hawaii. We did the premiere, I think, the 18th. We got on a plane that night. We landed on the 19th. My daughter's 18th [birthday] was the 20th. We flew out the 21st. We landed in Budapest on the 22nd. He went to work on the 23rd. His first goddamn scene, I'm sitting there s---ting my pants."

Jason Momoa with his daughter Lola Iolani and son Nakoa-Wolf in Los Angeles in 2024.

Amy Sussman/Getty

The proud papa continued, "He's with Zendaya. I'm like, 'He's *in* it.' And I'm like, 'My baby, 16 years old.' And he just killed it. I'm just crying. I was a f---ing wreck. I was so proud of him."

Hayes asked if he ever said, "You were right, this *is *f---ing hard," to which Momoa responded, "He's like, 'Pop, I have so much respect for you now.'"

Jason Momoa with Oscar Isaac in 'Dune'.

Chia Bella James/Warner Bros.

He concluded by saying, "You want your kids to just be better than you. I'm like, 'This motherf---er's gonna be, like... he's gonna blow me away.'"

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*Dune: Part Three* is scheduled for release on Dec. 18, 2026. To get you pumped, here's a look at Hans Zimmer performing sections from the Oscar-nominated, interplanetary *Dune* score.

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