Jason Momoa helped develop Chief of War for Apple, about the four major kingdoms of Hawaii and the wars of unification. He was born in Honolulu and he and Thomas Paʻa Sibbet, per Wikipedia, worked “with assistance on Hawaiian language dialogue provided by staff of Awaiaulu, an archiving and translation company based in Honolulu. Cultural advisors were appointed in every production department to achieve as high authenticity as possible, even as far as building war vessels (waʻa) from scratch using real local materials and historical techniques.” He has cast Hawaiian actors and many of them wore native garb to the premiere. Compare that to the time Cameron Crowe tried to pass Emma Stone off as Hawaiian, and… yeah. Nicely done, Momoa.
