‘Aquaman star’ opens up to PEOPLE about the challenges of drowning when every part of him is iconic: ‘I’m six-four, Hawaiian, probably in stripes and pink’
It’s almost impossible for Jason Momoa to blend in with the crowd – but once he managed it with some extreme measures.
“I am recognized everywhere I go,” the Aquaman star tells PEOPLE while discussing her new travel series On the bum (premiered on January 18 on MAX). “I’m 6’4″, Hawaiian, probably in stripes and pink, I’m not subtle, so yeah. It’s just the way it is.”
He usually doesn’t mind the attention. In fact, in addition to his own unique appearance — his tattoos, eyebrow scar and flowing hair regularly give him away, he notes — he’s known for driving around in a baby pink Cadillac and recently acquired a unique vintage pink motorcycle.
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For the most part, his efforts to go incognito are half-hearted.
He recalls a case where “I saw a paparazzi picture of me just walking like this.” She pulls the t-shirt over the lower part of her face up to her eyes, the rest is still exposed. “It’s still like you can’t get away with anything. It’s still me.” He raises his arm with a half-sleeve with tattoos with an easy-to-recognize triangle pattern.
However, there was one place that allowed him the luxury of anonymity.
“You know when I got away with it, I was in Jordan and you have to be completely wrapped up and covered,” he says, mimicking the long sleeves, head covering and face he wore in the Middle Eastern country, where he was filming the 2021 movie Dune.
“It was amazing. Nobody knew. I was standing next to people, it was great,” he recalls. At one point he almost exposed himself. “A small part of my tattoo came through and I saw a person like…” He raises his eyebrows, “and she was like…” He slowly moves one finger to his mouth in a shhh gesture. Fortunately, they followed his direction.
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IN on the run, his traveling persona is far less under the radar. “That’s me on the road and all the things I like to do. And all the things I’ve never done in my life, but I did Wanted do,” he tells PEOPLE.
He travels to North Carolina to restore historic motorcycles with the world’s best experts — and race them on a death-defying dirt track with a gang he built himself in one episode. In another, after meeting legendary guitarist Slash, he visits the Gibson Guitars headquarters in Tennessee to recreate some incredibly rare instruments.
The eight episodes don’t follow a set formula, but meander in a way that reflects Momo’s travel style. “Each episode just evolves into its own thing. Some of them turn into therapy sessions,” he shares. “That’s the beauty of it. It’s very intimate and obviously, for me, very revealing.”
On the bum premiering on January 18 on MAX.
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