Jason Momoa:<\/strong> No. I mean, “Game of Thrones” obviously has so many characters in it that the attention [is more spread out], and I did this little [thing] in London, but\u00a0I’ve\u00a0never been on anything quite this big. I’m also working now. It’s insane. I’ve stolen a little time to see my kids, which are the world to me, but it’s been almost a month of “Where am I?” and “What did I say?”<\/p>\n ShockYa: You actually live not too far from me. Is that the appeal of [a canyon area], that it\u00a0doesn’t feel like Los Angeles, or a quote-unquote big city?<\/strong><\/p>\n JM:<\/strong> I know it sounds cliched, but it’s great to be so close with nature. That’s how I grew up, really. And… it’s fantastic, we’ve got five acres up here and we’re surrounded by the mountains, and we have an orchard. My kids can play in the dirt and wander around. And I want to be able to give them that, so they can have that while they’re still near the city. It’s great, because 10 minutes down the Pacific Coast Highway we’re in Santa Monica. Everything is great, and we’re very lucky to have our own space.<\/p>\n ShockYa: You’ve worked steadily in a lot of genre pieces: “Game of Thrones,” “Stargate: Atlantis,” and now “Conan.” When you’re not just an actor but you’re involved in these very physical roles where a premium value is placed on your appearance, you’re almost like an athlete in that your body is a tool that you have to take care of.<\/strong><\/p>\n JM:<\/strong> Yeah, totally.<\/p>\n ShockYa: Is that something that’s difficult, or is it easy, and a byproduct of your enjoyment of the outdoors when you were younger and what not?<\/strong><\/p>\n JM:<\/strong> I think I’m genetically fairly athletic, and I grew up around sports, so it’s very easy on that side. And so I enjoy the physicality. I love playing the action, but I also have loved playing those characters, because if you look at all three of them they’re totally different. I don’t want to be the same guy in every action movie, over and over. Khal Drogo (my “Game of Thrones” character) is just phenomenal, and speaks a whole different dialect (Dothraki, created for the show by an expert linguist), and is completely the opposite of Conan. I mean, eventually I guess I’m going to run out of them, but I love the characters and all the dramatic aspects of [what I do]. I also write and want to direct, and there’s a lot of stuff I haven’t even attempted to do yet. So there’s a lot of hope and intent there to do that in the future.<\/p>\n ShockYa: You had the dreadlocks for seven years for “Stargate: Atlantis,” but now your “Conan” locks fall a bit more gently.<\/strong><\/p>\n JM:<\/strong> I loved them, but it was just time to cut them. My wife (Lisa Bonet) had them for 14 years. They’re beautiful. You just wash them, and they kind of curl. It’s just knotted hair, you just don’t comb it. And then of course they get bigger and bigger. But mine got really heavy, actually. And so during action scenes on “Stargate” I’d get whiplash from swinging them around. They were actually becoming painful. And then after I had my daughter I thought about it and then figured it was time for a change.<\/p>\n ShockYa: So she wasn’t reaching up and trying to swing from them or anything?<\/strong><\/p>\n JM:<\/strong> (laughs) No, no. I cut them when she was probably 12 months old.<\/p>\n ShockYa: What was your first reaction to news of a Conan” reboot, and what do you think about the enduring popularity of the character?<\/strong><\/p>\n JM:<\/strong> I was super-stoked because I’m a Conan fan, both of the comic books and Robert E. Howard stories. And all of those, along with\u00a0almost eight decades of stuff,\u00a0were all my source material for “Conan.” But you also realize that even though there’s a lot of material you have plenty of kids who maybe don’t know much about the character. So it’s exciting to be part of something that allows for them to discover it. And they’re then able to go out and see and read more. I think the fans will be happy. And I always compare the character to being James Bond, like with Sean Connery and Daniel Craig. They’re totally different but equally interesting, and you don’t want to leave either one out. You enjoy each of them.<\/p>\n
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