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.

[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.

[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.

[proskynesis]

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

[sharaz-jek.livejournal.com]

... the hell?

:(