Kaina Makua, who plays Kamehameha the Great, told Hawaii News Now that Jason Momoa discovered him during a canoe regatta in Hanalei.

The 'Game of Thrones' alum co-created and stars in the sweeping, action-packed drama about the unification of Hawaii in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Following a reluctant warrior's attempts to unify the Hawaiian islands before the arrival of Western colonizers, the multilingual drama series goes all out in depicting 18th-century Polynesian culture ...