Jason Momoa is getting ready to get back into character for Dune: Part Three and filmed himself shaving his facial hair.
In a new video posted on social media, the Aquaman actor said the last time he had shaved was for the first film.
“Only for you, Denis,” Momoa says in the video, giving a shoutout to Dune director Denis Villeneuve.
After Momoa shaved off his facial hair, he looked at himself and said, “Goddamnit, I hate it!”
Dune was first released in 2021, where Momoa played the role of Duncan Idaho, a swordmaster of House Atreides and a mentor to Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides. Momoa didn’t appear in the sequel, released in 2024, but will return for Dune: Part Three, which is expected to open in theaters on December 18, 2026.
The third film in the Dune film series is based on the 1969 novel Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert, which follows Atreides’ struggles with the consequences of his Fremen-led jihad upon his ascension to Emperor Muad’Dib.
Momoa will be joined by his son Nakoa-Wolf Momoa in Dune: Part Three, who was recently cast alongside Ida Brooke as Leto II and Ghanima, the twin offspring of Paul Atreides (Chalamet) and Chani (Zendaya).
Deadline reported in April that Robert Pattinson would be joining the film series in a new role, with sources saying he would take on the villain role of Scytale.
Last year, Villeneuve said that this third film would be his last entry in the Dune saga, telling Vanity Fair, “It’s important that people understand that for me, it was really a diptych. It was really a pair of movies that will be the adaptation of the first book. That’s done and that’s finished. If I do a third one, which is in the writing process, it’s not like a trilogy. It’s strange to say that, but if I go back there, it’s to do something that feels different and has its own identity.”
The filmmaker said that he “would love to do something else” following the third installment of the saga.
