Well hello, youngJason Momoa!

TheAquamanstar, 39, appears in the latest issue of PEOPLE where he looks back on his career and his early acting days. And the Hawaiian-born actor looked completely unrecognizable in one picture PEOPLE unearthed of him on the set ofBaywatch: Hawaiiall the way back in 2000.

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BAYWATCH HAWAII - 2000

But no matter the appreciation for the photo or hisBaywatchlook, the actor recently said that he’s not going back to his short-haired days any time soon.

“My wife would leave me if I cut my hair so I just don’t cut my hair,” Momoa told theDaily Telegraph. “I am not cutting my hair for a while, I will tell you that much.”

Hair is a sweet part of his relationship with wife Lisa Bonet, 51, from the moment they met in 2005.

“We just happened to be in the right place at the right time,” the actortold James Corden in 2017about the first time he met Bonet in a jazz club in N.Y.C.. “I actually had dreaded my hair for her. I had dreadlocks, she had dreadlocks. I literally turned around and I see her and she goes, ‘I’m Lisa.’”

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‘Aquaman’ film premiere, Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 12 Dec 2018

He continued, “I turned around to my friend and I [pretended to scream]. I had f—ing fireworks going off inside, man.”

The two have been together ever since. Theytied the knotin October 2017 and share two children together, daughterLola Iolani, 11, and sonNakoa-Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha.(Bonet is also mom to daughter Zoë Kravitz, 30, with ex-husband Lenny Kravitz.)

While he wants to keep his wife happy, Momoa revealed he’s also not planning to cut his hair for professional reasons. “I am going to be playing this guy for a while and I don’t want to wear a wig,” he said about hisAquamancharacter and shooting potential sequels. “I think we are good for the next two years.”Aquamanis in theaters now.

source: people.com