Oh.

[frith_in_thorns]

I'm so disappointed in Jason Momoa right now. (For those of you who don't know, he played Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones, and was recently on a Comic Con panel discussing it.)

"I've never been a part of anything remotely close to this," Momoa says, when asked to compare working on a Sci Fi Channel show to working on an HBO show. He loves that scifi and fantasy shows let you "rip someone's throat out and rape beautiful women."

(Emphasis mine, source here)

That's just...disturbing and disgusting. And no, I don't care if he was joking, that's still an really terrible thing to say. At least everyone else on the panel looked suitably unimpressed.

Comments

[iolandasblog.livejournal.com]

I didn't really expect something like this from him - but I'm not too surprised either. Momoa has a kind of humour I just hate, beginning since the mooning incident with David Hewlett which everybody thought was oh so funny, but not me.

Jason is just the kind of person I try to stay from away as far as possible in RL.

[frith_in_thorns]

I was pretty surprised to see this, as I didn't know anything about him really as a person - and this is why I often prefer not to know what people are behind characters I like :( I haven't heard anything about a mooning incident, but it doesn't sound as if that would be something I'd appreciate either!

[iolandasblog.livejournal.com]

He talks about this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38QmlwFkNjg

David is also there and plays along and it doesn't seem as if he is upset about this at all - but it still disgusts me.

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's just horrid.

I generally agree with what you say in a comment above: I often prefer not to know what people are behind characters I like. Between the whole "cult of celebrity" thing and disappointments such as this one, it rarely seems worthwhile.

[frith_in_thorns]

Yeah, I mean god forbid his character would have to rape ugly women *rage*

I really don't like it when someone who's acting/writing/whatever I admire goes and does something like this - it's a real let-down and does colour my future viewing of their work. And I wish people would stop saying things like this so I don't have this dilemma! Grr.

[peach-waffles.livejournal.com]

What. The. Fuck. The guy didn't seem so bad in an interview I had read a month ago, but that just ruins everything.

[frith_in_thorns]

That was pretty much my reaction too. Urgh :(

[proskynesis]

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but... :(

[frith_in_thorns]

It's like every time I turn around there's a reason for me to further dislike AS0IaF and the people associated with it!

But yeah, I'm still surprised when guys say these sort of things, even though I really shouldn't be by now...

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

... the hell?

:(

[frith_in_thorns]

Pretty much :(