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Jason Momoa<\/a> has taken a lot of blows onscreen over the years, but shooting the penultimate episode of Chief of War<\/a> required him to endure a different kind of gut punch.<\/p>\n \u201cEven talking about it now is making me emotional,\u201d Momoa tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. \u201cThe sounds that are coming out of my body, I haven\u2019t heard before. I\u2019ve never experienced that. I didn\u2019t have to act any of that. I\u2019m really going through the horrors of that [trauma].\u201d<\/p>\n Written by Momoa, Thomas Pa\u2019a Sibbett<\/a> and Doug Jung<\/a>, and directed by Momoa\u2019s long-time producing partner, Brian Andrew Mendoza<\/a>, the eighth episode of the Apple TV+ historical drama finds Momoa\u2019s native Hawaiian warrior Ka\u2019iana enduring one personal tragedy after another. At the end of the previous episode, Ka\u2019iana watched in horror as Captain Simon Metcalfe (Jason Hood<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [This story contains spoilers from season one, episode eight of Chief of War, \u201cThe Sacred Niu Grove.\u201d] Jason Momoa has taken a lot of blows onscreen over the years, but shooting the penultimate episode of Chief of War required him to endure a different kind of gut punch. \u201cEven talking about it now is making […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2027049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2027048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jason-Momoa-Has-a-Visceral-Reaction-to-That-Brutal-\u2018Chief.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}