Hawaii and their past had on the small screen. Apple TV + presents this Friday, August 1 episodes of your series Chief of War. Used by Jason Momoa, this historical fiction traces the intestine wars and colonization that marked this archipelago.
An unknown and important story of Hawaii’s culture that the actor was anxious to present on the screen, being Honolulu himself, as explained in the BFMTV microphone.
“When I was little, I loved watching these films in the Amerindians, I loved to discover all these different cultures and I hoped that one day I would see something similar in my own culture,” he confesses.
“Today I am 45 years old. And finally the next generation can, through this series, discover our origins on the screen and find inspiration there. We have been deprived of many things and it is a form of revolution to be able to restore all this,” continues the actor.
Based on historical events of the 18th century
To give life to this project, Jason Momoa got involved. In addition to playing the main role, the actor is also a screenwriter, director, producer and cooker of the series along with Thomas Paʻa Sibbett, also from Hawaii.
With the backdrop, the beginning of the American-British grip, after James Cook’s trip in 1779, this fresco of nine episodes, is based on historical events dating from the 18th century.
We follow Ka’iana, a warrior chief who fights to unify Hawaii and save his family from bloody rivalries who devastate the islands of the archipelago. An image of Hawaii with antipodes of postal landscapes, with its white sand and turquoise waters.
On the casting side, Jason Momoa was surrounded by actors, mostly Polynesia: Luciane Buchanan, Temuera Morrison, you AO or Hinepehinga, Cliff Curtis, Kaina Makua, Moses Goods, who speak English and Hawaiian on the screen. A beautiful tribute to Jason Momoa to the culture of his archipelago.
Source: BFM TV
