Inside Our Wild Ride With Jason Momoa

The star of AppleTV+'s new series See on making the most of fame, life with Lisa Bonet, and being starstruck by Benjamin Bratt.

Jason Momoa Is King of the Wild Things Jason Momoa did not steal the dog. He wants to make that absolutely clear. He's just borrowing him for a little while. Sure, yesterday he walked off the set of his new Apple TV+ show, See, with the slobbery German shepherd puppy who plays one of a scrappy pack, and sure, he brought the puppy back to his Vancouver hotel suite to cuddle with him in bed for eight hours, and sure, he immediately renamed him Rama, which was the name of a dog once belonging to his wife, Lisa Bonet, but this is all just a temporary arrangement.  That is, unless his wife says he can keep him. (The nostalgic name was no accident, you see.) Bonet, whom Momoa has been with for fourteen years and officially married in 2017, rules the roost. What she says goes. This is why, he tells me as we sit under an umbrella on the patio of his room at L'Hermitage on a recent sunny August afternoon, drinking tallboys of ice-cold Guinness, Bonet's section of their house in Topanga, on a sprawling five-acre ranch where she does yoga, is the nice part, while his man cave (yes, he uses the term "man cave" a lot, as in "I feel like Tom Waits and Neil Young might stay the night in my man cave") is . . . the less nice part. "Goddesses belong up there," he says, holding one hand high above his head. Then, lowering it to the ground: "Dirtbags down here."   Read the Full Story Ronan Farrow Doesn't Want to be the Story. But He's Got a Hell of a Story to Tell. On May 11, 2016, The Hollywood Reporter published a guest column from Ronan Farrow titled, "My Father, Woody Allen, and the Danger of Questions Unasked." Until that moment, the then-28-year-old, who's the son of actress Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen, had avoided talking publicly about the sexual abuse allegations in his family. In 1992, his sister, Dylan Farrow, a seven-year-old at the time, accused Allen of sexually assaulting her, a charge Allen has denied. Farrow wanted the public to know him for his work as a journalist, not because of his famous parents and the sexual abuse allegations swirling around his estranged father. But now here was his byline on a story about the very thing from which he'd sought to distance himself. Read the Full Story Damon Lindelof's Watchmen Series Will Piss People Off. He's Not Afraid of That. Damon Lindelof was 13 years old when, in 1986, his dad gave him the first two issues of a new comic book called Watchmen. It was, Lindelof says now, like nothing he'd ever experienced. Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, shattered all expectations of comic books. It proved that the superhero genre could be as political, controversial, challenging, thought-provoking, and deeply human as any work of dramatic literature. The flawed, flesh-and-blood characters deal with ethical conundrums (who watches the Watchmen?) and anxieties (the threat of nuclear war). "What separates Watchmen from Superman or Batman or even Spider- Man is there's a depth of psychological pain," says Lindelof, a TV showrunner with Lost and The Leftovers on his résumé who's adapting a version of Watchmen for HBO. In setting out to make his own series, he knew he had to do something entirely new—to evoke the feeling he experienced at 13. And that meant not worrying about whether he angered people.   Read the Full Story The Smart, Stylish Diver That'll Withstand Anything One of Seiko's most sought-after timepieces was originally made to solve a diving problem. On saturation dives, helium buildup inside watches would blow the crystal off and wreck the watch. Seiko prevented this with the Ref. 6159- 7010, featuring an outer case that protected the timepiece underwater from insidious gases. It was dubbed "the Tuna Can" for its resemblance to a five-ounce tin of Bumble Bee. What a nickname. Read the Full Story Everyone Knows the 'Monster Mash,' But Have We Ever Actually Heard the Real Song? Earlier this year, Esquire got in a bit of a tiff with the Twitter mobswhen we mistakenly left "Monster Mash" off our list of Best Halloween Songs. We have since issued a correction, and admitted that "Monster Mash" is, indeed, a graveyard smash. But the whole episode got us thinking about the deeper meaning of "Monster Mash." Read the Full Story The 15 Best Topcoats to Keep You Feeling Warm (and Looking Cool) This Winter You need a great topcoat in your closet. It's not just because things are getting colder, and it'll keep you warm out there. Nor is it simply because a topcoat looks great with pretty much everything, from a full-blown suit to a pair of jeans to sweats (yes, really). It's because a topcoat—or an overcoat; let's not get hung up on semantics—does both of those things at once, and it does them very well. It's an essential. And we've rounded up 15 of the best to buy right now. Check 'em out. Read the Full Story   Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2019 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hearst Email Privacy, 300 W 57th St., Fl. 19 (sta 1-1), New York, NY 10019