MOMOA: “…dreads are staying”

Okay so earlier this year Gateworld had reported that Stargate Atlantis star Jason Momoa (Ronon Dex) was going to be losing his dreads as part of a story point early in the next season and thus receive a new look. It turns out that may have been premature.

“It took a little over nine hours . . . It was painful, and I didn’t sleep for four days. I grew my hair out when I cut them, and they braided it and sewed my old dreads back in. It looked great — it just took a long time.”

He goes on to blame SCIFI for the decision to keep Ronon’s characteristic dreadlocks:

“SCI FI said no — which is funny because they didn’t want to have Ronon to have dreads in the first place . . . SCI FI won’t let me cut it until it comes to the point where it is going to hurt my neck — which is basically the reason I wanted to cut it. So it’s going to get to a point where physically I’m going to have to cut this thing off, because it weighs just as much as the other one. But it’s nice that I can go home at night [without it].”

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