{"id":30864,"date":"2025-07-23T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30864\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T09:12:07","slug":"jason-momoa-doesnt-plan-to-give-his-son-a-leg-up-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/30864\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Momoa Doesn’t Plan to Give His Son a Leg-Up in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJason Momoa<\/a> wants his 16-year-old son, Nakoa-Wolf Momoa, to create his own path in Hollywood, without getting a leg-up from his famous father.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Aquaman star recently told Extra<\/a> that he wasn\u2019t involved in his son landing a role in filmmaker Denis Villeneuve<\/a>\u2018s Dune: Part Three.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA rude awakening is what he\u2019s in for,\u201d Momoa said of Nakoa-Wolf\u2019s casting. \u201cHe\u2019s into the workforce for the first time. It\u2019s going to be good. He did it on his own. I don\u2019t want to help him, and he\u2019s done it all on his own, and good for him.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor added, \u201cYou want your children to be better than you, and I really, actually believe he is. I couldn\u2019t do what he\u2019s doing at his age. There\u2019s no way I could sit in a room with Denis Villeneuve and hold my own. I was on Baywatch at 19. He\u2019s 16 and holding shit down with Denis Villeneuve.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tNakoa-Wolf is reportedly playing Leto II, opposite Ida Brooke\u2019s Ghanima, in the franchise\u2019s third installment. In Frank Herbert\u2019s book, Dune Messiah, Leto II and Ghanima are the twin offspring of Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s Paul Atreides and Zendaya\u2019s Chani.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for Momoa, he previously played Duncan Idaho in 2021\u2019s Dune: Part One and is set to return for the third film after sitting out of Part Two.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Chief of War actor shares Nakoa-Wolf with his ex-wife, Lisa Bonet, as well as daughter Lola Iolani Momoa. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe raised him beautiful[ly]. We raised our children \u2026 being loved and being confident in themselves. That is what he is,\u201d Momoa added of his son. \u201cHe\u2019s very confident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Momoa wants his 16-year-old son, Nakoa-Wolf Momoa, to create his own path in Hollywood, without getting a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,7106,88,21855],"class_list":["post-30864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-denis-villeneuve","tag-entertainment","tag-jason-momoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}