"I went in and did the Haka. Do you know what that is?" Jason Momoa asked during a 2011 interview about his Game of Thrones audition. "It's a war chant. I just thought, in the scenes I was doing, you don't get a sense of what this warrior's like, what it would be like if he was commanding his officers or what he'd be like in battle. I wanted to represent that and channel a little bit of my ancestry and heritage. I'm half Hawaiian. I went into HBO and I said, 'Don't be scared or anything, but when you're in front of a large man doing the Haka, you're going to feel it. You're going to feel some energy coming at you.'"
