--- title: Jason Momoa Leads Haka Dance at Aquaman Premiere description: Jason Momoa led a nearly three-minute-long haka in front of the crowd gathered to watch the red carpet arrivals at the Aquaman premiere. canonical: https://time.com/5478702/jason-momoa-haka-aquaman-premiere/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-13T16:10:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:24.598Z og:title: Witness Jason Momoa Lead a Haka on the Red Carpet og:description: See the DC superhero in action og:url: https://time.com/5478702/jason-momoa-haka-aquaman-premiere/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0452a83a234ffd49/6989416e929fada48ebf2507/jason-momoa-red-carpet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4905 og:image:height: 2759 og:image:alt: jason-momoa-red-carpet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Witness Jason Momoa Lead a Haka on the Red Carpet twitter:description: See the DC superhero in action twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0452a83a234ffd49/6989416e929fada48ebf2507/jason-momoa-red-carpet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sit Down and Witness Jason Momoa Lead a Haka on the Red Carpet > Sponsored content. 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Ng Han Guan—AP/REX/Shutterstock  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Dec 13, 2018 4:10 PM UTC If there’s anyone who make a red carpet more interesting, it’s clearly [Jason Momoa](http://time.com/5473726/jason-momoa-on-jimmy-fallon/) At the Tuesday premiere of [_Aquaman_](http://time.com/4867676/aquaman-movie-jason-momoa-villain/)at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre, Momoa led a nearly three-minute-long haka in front of the crowd gathered to watch the red— or rather, blue — carpet arrivals. The DC superhero even went so far as to break his character’s signature trident over his knee. The group that performed the traditional Maori war cry and dance alongside Momoa, who is Hawaiian, included New Zealand actor Temuera Morrison, who plays Aquaman’s dad in the movie as well as Momoa’s 11-year-old daughter Lola and 9-year-old son Nakoa-Wolf. Of course, this isn’t the first time that [Momoa has performed a haka on camera](http://time.com/4805870/game-of-thrones-jason-momoa-dance/). While filming _Aquaman_ in Australia in 2017, the former _Game of Thrones_ star participated in a group haka intended to honor his friend, Mark Hunt, a mixed martial artist from New Zealand who’s known as “The Super Samoan.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5478702/jason-momoa-haka-aquaman-premiere/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5478702/jason-momoa-haka-aquaman-premiere/"},"headline":"Sit Down and Witness Jason Momoa Lead a Haka on the Red Carpet","datePublished":"2018-12-13T16:10:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:24.598Z","description":"See the DC superhero in action","url":"https://time.com/5478702/jason-momoa-haka-aquaman-premiere/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Jason Momoa"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0452a83a234ffd49/6989416e929fada48ebf2507/jason-momoa-red-carpet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0452a83a234ffd49/6989416e929fada48ebf2507/jason-momoa-red-carpet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"jason-momoa-red-carpet","caption":"Aquaman, Beijing, China - 18 Nov 2018","creditText":"Ng Han Guan—AP/REX/Shutterstock","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5478702/jason-momoa-haka-aquaman-premiere/","name":"Sit Down and Witness Jason Momoa Lead a Haka on the Red Carpet"}}]}] ```