'Chief of War': Jason Momoa Had Visceral Response to Nahi's Death

[This story contains spoilers from season one, episode eight of Chief of War , “The Sacred Niu Grove .”]

Jason Momoa has taken a lot of blows onscreen over the years, but shooting the penultimate episode of Chief of War required him to endure a different kind of gut punch.

“Even talking about it now is making me emotional,” Momoa tells The Hollywood Reporter . “The sounds that are coming out of my body, I haven’t heard before. I’ve never experienced that. I didn’t have to act any of that. I’m really going through the horrors of that [trauma].”

[This story contains spoilers from season one, episode eight of Chief of War , “The Sacred Niu Grove .”]

Jason Momoa has taken a lot of blows onscreen over the years, but shooting the penultimate episode of Chief of War requir