Jason Momoa’s insanely expensive new Apple TV+ show, See, is getting ready to drop in November. The former Game of Thrones star spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the rigorous training he had to endure to embody the blind warrior Baba Voss.
See takes place thousands of years in the future when the entire human race is blind, for reasons unknown. Baba Voss’ wife bears him twins who can see, which upsets a lot of suspicious locals. And the adventure begins:
What can viewers expect from Momoa when the show debuts? “Just imagine if Khal Drogo actually lived on,” he said. “He never got to be a father. I never got to fulfill any of that. Even in , I had a kid and my family was taken from me. In this, by the second episode, I’m 60 years old with 15-year-old twins.”
"Even though he’s a warrior, he’s a man trying to keep his family together. I’ve never experienced a dad role. I’ve never had the opportunity to go to these places before."
In order to prepare to play a blind warrior, Momoa trained with both a movement and sightless fight coach. For hours at a time, he would wear a sleep mask as a blindfold and even learned echolocating, a sightless way to navigate by making noise and listening for the sound to bounce off nearby objects, like sonar.
"We’ll spend the better part of a couple hours in complete darkness. The less dependent you are on your eyes, it’s like your skin feels more. You walk into a room you can feel an object approach you. You’re echolocating so you can hear sound bounce off things. And the more you train for it, you become this ultimate warrior because your senses are so heightened and you’re not dependent on your eyes. All of the fight scenes are so different because you don’t have vision."
Given all that, it’s no surprise that Momoa considers this project to be “the hardest thing I’ve ever done as an actor and I’m very proud of it.”
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Meanwhile, the show’s writer, Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders) described the world where See takes place. “It’s not as if we’re saying ‘here are people who lost their sight and it’s awful,” he said. “The world has healed itself. It’s back to being beautiful and pristine. The human race has adapted. We spent weeks with a group of people — survivalists, scientists and anthropologists — and put together this world. We wanted to look at what bits of technology would survive and what wouldn’t survive.”
See debuts on Apple TV+ on November 1.
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