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Will you wear the green leotards in the water as aquaman . Am i answering the question, would you like to see me in green leotards . Jimmy i dont know. I like that they cast you as aquaman, because those are all rumors. Jimmy really . Because i have a printout here that says jason to play aquaman in batman v. Superman. Is that a rumor or is that happening . That would be pretty exciting. What do you think . Well just have to wait and see. Jimmy and whose job would it be to tell you that you cant play aquaman . That would be a very bad job. Do people try to speak to you in dothraki . Yeah, they do. Im the king of it. I can say a bunch of [ bleep ] over top of it. Theyre not going to give me any about it. Jimmy and this movie, you wrote it, you produced it. I cowrote it. Jimmy you directed it . Yes. Jimmy youre in it, too. Unfortunately, yes. Im in it. I shot it with seven friends, and jimmy when you say unfortunately, you didnt want to be in it . Its hard to direct and act. I like to be behind the camera. Yeah, thats how i got the money to do it and bring up this topic. Jimmy what is the movie about . Whats the idea . Its about some of the injustices happening on the native American Reservations right now. Its a lit bit of a loophole. A nonnative can commit a crime, mostly women, and tribal law cant prosecute them, it has to go to federal court. So when i read these articles and my friend brought that to my attention, im a married man with children, mom, grandmother, if anyone hurt the women in my life and the law didnt take care of it, what would i do . Thats left for you to decide. Jimmy no one would ever touch your wife or your children. Your life we should mention is lisa bonet and she is in the movie with you. Thats nice. It is. I wrote it for her, and it was great, because we turned that into sundance and it ended up getting on the show together. This is the first thing we ever worked together on. Shes amazing. I was extremely shy and it was hard, one of the hardest things ive ever done. Jimmy she was on the cosby show. I dont know if youre aware of that. I used to watch that when i was a little boy and go, i want that one. I want her. Hey, mom. Jimmy i used to do the same thing, but she never came to me. Youre from hawaii, right . Yeah. Jimmy how did you wind up coming out to l. A. To be an actor . Did you swim here . I was raised in iowa and i spent my summers with my father in hawaii. But i was in hawaii taking off time from college and a tv show came. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Jimmy what show was it . Bay watch hawaii. Jimmy oh, yeah. And they were like, you need to be on this show . It was a month of auditions, which wasnt really that hard. And we ended up getting that. You know, i fell in love with acting and studying life. I would never have moved to l. A. To become an actor. It found me and i fell in love with acting. Jimmy it seems to have worked out. Your death on game of thrones was like the worst death of all of them. You died because bactene wasnt invented. You died of an infection. I keep thinking, back in those times. But im like, these are the times when they had dragons, these times didnt exist. Wasnt it gangus kahn and attila the hun die of poisons . Jimmy you would know better than i. Guillermo, what did did attila the hun die of poisoning . I think so. Jimmy hes like my own version of google. This movie is coming out in a couple of cities. It will be in new york and l. A. Jimmy and people can watch9 at their leisure on july 15th. There you go. Jason momoa road to paloma opens in select cities july 11th. When we come back, music from young fathers. Dicky the Jimmy Kimmel Live Concert Series is presented by at t mobilizing your world. Dicky the Jimmy Kimmel Live Concert Series is presented by at t mobilizing your world. Jimmy id like to thank mike tyson, jason momoa and apologize to matt damon, we ran out of time for him. Nightline is next, but first, their album is called, dead here with the song get up young fathers. [ cheers and applause ] come here and do the right thing get up and have a party get up get up come here and do the right thing get up and have a party get up get up got no past no future fumbling through the ether take a ride in aquila cost you thirty liras pushy dealer hits the meter a shrewd operator in the shadow of a beacon have a dirty weekend interesting proposition insinuate then listen what a way to make a living scissor to the ribbon throw my hands like a reverend triple sixes double sevens for a revolution for a revolution for a revolution tion tion tion come here and do the right thing get up and have a party get up get up come here and do the right thing get up and have a party get up get up beautiful corpse beautiful how you lie so still another life fulfilled oh beautiful corpse beautiful how you lie so still another life fulfilled fifteen hundred red cases a multitude of faces the body in the basement double on the bunk bed you better watch the babies careful with your manners only Drinking Water on the cacacacabana wellbuilt family subject to the battery the battery mental men are manic in their manacles i meant to make a metaphor for radicals taking off my clothes at the lido all i got is my decadent credo i dont think that i could watch you posing dead get up get up get up get up come here and do the right thing get up and have a party get up get up abandoned by a suffragette given to a gang of gits sold to a pack of losers downtown apalucia i heard you got guns well i got fun i got Something Sweet what you call sin so you lose i win i saw some bunch of cowboys today i whoopeddiwood and they turned and rode away get up get up get up get up come here and do the right thing get up and have a party get up get up come here and do the right thing get up and have a party get up get up come on and get up get up come on and get up get up this is nightline. Tonight, she locked her life behind for love. Moving all the way to afghanistan to live in a hut with him. I have been in too many firefights already to be very afraid. The ultimate american hero. A rule breaking green beret. But did he break one rule too many . Tonight, their fall from grace. Prescription drugs and alcohol in the face of war. There were some people in my chain of command who were looking to get me off the battlefield. And the secret romance that brought everything crashing down. We didnt want my presence there to be widely known. But at the same time, a lot of people knew about it. But first, the nightline five. Good evening. How far would you go for love . Tonight, as we celebrate americas independence, youre going to meet a man who was once considered one of our countrys greatest heroes, and the woman who traveled all the way to afghanistan during wartime to be with him. But the fall from grace was hard and fast. Heres abcs chief investigative correspondent brian ross. [ gunfire ] reporter until tonight, few americans have heard the story of what happened to jim. Seen here from the back, heading into a firefight, dynamic, hard charging major in the green berets. He dressed and fought like a native and was once considered a key to winning the war in afghanistan. You did go native, is that fair to say . Yes, i did. Reporter but now as he walks the streets of seattle, the 46yearold gant is a broken man, ready to tell his story of how in just a few years time he would go from being called an american hero, awarded the silver star to being labeled a disgrace to the military. Harsh words. Harsh words. Harsh words, yeah. Reporter and you accepted it . I did. I did. Come on reporter for some, gadget was seen as a modern american version of lawrence of arabia, who lived and fought with arab tribes, idolized by gant himself. Any sentence that mentions t. E. Lawrence and me im proud of that. Reporter for others, he was the character in apocalypse now, gone native, out of his mind. Im not innocent. I did break the rules and i never said i didnt. You drank alcohol. I drank alcohol. Reporter you had a civil woman living with you. Yes, yes. Reporter she was one of americas most experienced war correspondents. Ann scott tyson, who would quit the Washington Post and live her family behind who would secretly live with gant as his lover. Now they are married and going public with their account of hov and war. A battlefield romance that violated u. S. Army rules and led to the end of gants military career. We did fall in love. I would say over the course of about a week. About the third day he asked me if i would marry him. I still have the email. The answer was ha, ha, ha. Reporter you were serious . I was serious. Reporter tyson has written a book how they fell in love and literally went to war together, documented in hours of videotape she provided to abc news. Much of it recorded in the heat of battle. Werent you putting the woman you loved at great risk . Absolutely. We both knew there was a lot of risk involved in doing what we did. And i would do it again. In complete violation of army rules. Reporter gant was sent to afghanistan in 2010. The major had proposed a way to win the war, by spending small teams of special forces to move in with and win the loyalty of the tribes, one tribe at a time. A strategy endorsed by general David Petraeus and other top commanders who told gant and the green berets to push the envelope. They do have to stretch the pounds a bit. Theres an expectation that theyll do some of that. Its celebrated as a quality. Reporter gant brought a small team to assimilate with the tribes in two small villages. Looking more like Osama Bin Laden than an army major. Protect your village, protect your valley, and protect your tribe. Tell everyone i did not come here to fight, i came here to help the people. But if someone wants to [ bleep ] fight, they know where i am. If you get into trouble and you need us, we will be there. He clearly had grit, gut and intelligence. Reporter gant got around red tape to head out automatic weapons to the Tribal Police unit. He didnt always fill out the paperwork to provide fuel for their vehicles or account for the Cash Payments for afghan gunmen he tired for extra security. And gant and his men rarely wore their official body armor or even army boots. When youre carrying a 70pound kit and helmet and trying to chase down insurgents who are in flipflops and pajamas, you cant fight like that. Reporter it was safer being dressed in afghan clothes . Absolutely. Even the tactics, you could move further and faster, you could take cover more quickly. You could carry more ammunition and water. It was an absolute nobrainer. Reporter and in a short time, his strategy began to pay off as the tribes code of honor required them to protect the americans as their welcome guests. When the taliban opened fire on this small compound, the villagers joined the americans in returning fire with a vengeance. [ gunfire ] you cannot let violence go unanswered. You have to be prepared to be more violent than they are. Because if youre not, theyll kill you. Theyll kill you. Reporter she was there during the battle and claimed she was never afraid. The afghans kept shooting, even as one of their leaders was wounded. The americans quickly came to his aid. Ill never forget the courage of afghans like abdu wally, to fight with the americans side by side. That is what we needed to win in afghanistan. [ speaking Foreign Language ] it wasnt about body armor or weapons. It was going to be about how we treated them. And it worked in a big way. Reporter the tribal leader took on gant like a son and gant nicknamed him sitting bull. And gants village became one of the few examples of success in afghanistan. Called by some the petting zoo because so many politicians and top commanders showed up for tours and photoopes. As the senators, including john mccain walked around. Ann said she had to hide for fear they would recognize her. When he came, i stayed out of the picture. Reporter at other times she was out in the open, trained to use weapons, and she says, the taliban was overheard on radios talking about the woman they called gants wife. We didnt want my presence there to be widely known. But at the same time, a lot of people knew about it. Reporter gant would letter be accused of putting his men at risk to keep ann safe. I never lost a man or left the battlefield defeated. Reporter perhaps the most important test for his strategy came after four u. S. Soldiers were killed in other parts of the country when afghan counterparts became angry. Gant told his men he was heaving the compound to walk around among the villagers to send a message he trusted them. You have to trust me. Im putting your lives in my [ bleep ] hands right here, saying im going to protect you. Okay . If you dont feel a little fear in your heart right now, youre [ bleep ] stupid. Youre just not smart. You must trust the people youre with. Therein lying your security. He lived by that. Our lives were at risk, but they were safer the more you lived by that. Reporter so you were safer by breaking the rules than following the rules . Ytin this case, yes. Reporter but they were the constant target of taliban, and hit a roadside bomb. But in another attack, gant walls injuwas injured. But he down played his injury, ignoring another army rule. Should you have done that . If youre a rule maker, no, i shouldnt. But i had to break the rules to be as successful as i wanted to be, yeah, i did. 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