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Jason Momoa talks about Thrones

Jason Momoa talks about Thrones

Jason Momoa had a panel today at Armageddon Expo in New Zealand. During the panel he spoke of his role as Khal Drogo in the Game of Thrones pilot. Le Saboteur from the Westeros forums checks in with a report.

Okay, Jason Momoa panel was today, he is such a cool guy. Incredibly charismatic and funny for someone whos going to be playing Drogo. Naturally there was a LOT of Stargate fans so I didnt get time to ask more than ONE question. I got it on video (though he was like OH NO YOU ARE NOT VIDEOING THIS HBO WILL KILL ME so I dropped the camera and pointed it at my leg for a while, then went back to shooting because Im cool like that), but wont be uploading it til later. Heres the basics.

- He has read Game of Thrones but no more of the series. He said its amazing.
- He thinks Khal Drogo is one bad mofo, and hes a little intimidated by all the fighting and riding hell be doing (he seems pretty confident itll get picked up, it seems)
- He thinks he got the gig by doing the haka. He said it scared the shit out of the casting directors, and he tried to act as intimidating as he could, looking at them like "you gon die", or something similar. He joked that they gave him the job to get the hell out of the building. Apparently there were people in the building wondering what was going on. The haka he performed was the one he did at his cousins funeral, and he wouldnt perform the whole thing for us, he considers it pretty personal.
- The scene he said hes most looking forward to doing is; "where some one tries to kill my wife".

I cant re-watch the video right now (currently downloading video to the computer) so I cant elaborate on what scene he was talking about, I was concentrating on keeping the camera still-ish so was only half hearing what he was saying. Hopefully should be able to upload it within the next few days.

He seems pretty excited about it! Like I said, hes very captivating (beyond his ridiculously good looking exterior), and Im sure his scenes will be good. Hes very tall, but not a tank of a guy. When he was stalking around the stage, talking about his audition, I definitely whoad.

And while we wait for Le Saboteur to upload video of his panel today, there are two videos (via Rans Twitter) from his initial appearance at the Armageddon Expo in Melbourne where he first announced his involvement in the project. You can check them out here and here.


[Credit to Danu�ka for the above photo. Check out her blog for more photos of the expo.]

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