Jason Momoa Shuts Down New York Times Reporter For Question ‘That Feels Icky’ About Game Of Thrones Character
David Marchese, a New York Times entertainment reporter, was recently called a “master of conversation” by Interview Magazine. Actor Jason Momoa, on the other hand, appears to disagree.
The “Aquaman” actor addressed Marchese’s concerns regarding the superhero genre and handling expository language effusively, giving long answers, at the beginning of their interview, which was published Friday in the New York Times. However, Marchese changed the subject when he suggested that politically incorrect content should not be included in fictional programs.
On the topic of ‘Game of Thrones,’ the tremendous success that helped put Momoa in the spotlight, Marchese said, “I don’t know how much you followed any of this, but [the show] inspired a lot of discussion about its depiction of scenes of sexual assault and its treatment of women generally.” He then asked, “Do you think differently today about those scenes? Would you do one now? Do you have any regrets?”
Momoa responded to the question by stating, “Well, it was important to depict Drogo and his style. You’re playing someone that’s like Genghis Khan. It was a really, really, really hard thing to do. But my job was to play something like that, and it’s not a nice thing, and it’s what that character was. It’s not my job to go, “Would I not do it?” I’ve never really been questioned about “Do you regret playing a role?” We’ll put it this way: I already did it. Not doing it again.”
Following that, though, the 42-year-old’s responses were short and seemed irritated at Marchese.
When Marchese asked whether Momoa could share a recollection from his time touring the globe, Momoa said, “Not really for you.”
Momoa seized the opportunity at the end of the interview, when Marchese stated, “Okay, I guess we’re done,” to voice his displeasure with what he appeared to see as a “gotcha” question.“Yeah, and I wanted to bring something up that left a bad feeling in my stomach,” he said. “When you brought up ‘Game of Thrones,’ you brought up stuff about what’s happening with my character and would I do it again.” Momoa continued, “I was bummed when you asked me that. It just feels icky — putting it upon me to remove something. As if an actor even had the choice to do that. We’re not really allowed to do anything. There are producers, there are writers, there are directors, and you don’t get to come in and be like, ‘I’m not going do that because this isn’t kosher right now and not right in the political climate.” That never happens. So it’s a question that feels icky. I just wanted you to know that.”
Some commentators on the article agreed with Momoa. As one person from Washington, D.C. shared, “Kudos to Momoa for calling out the interviewer. Are we retrofitting literature to make movies safe for progressive sensibilities? I’d like to think the Times is more sophisticated than that.”
“The retrospective woke prisim of the Khal [Drogo] question was insufferable,” another reader said in one of the most popular comments.
“Embarrassingly clumsy work by Marchese,” one commenter from New York said, expressing the thoughts of many, “Kudos to Momoa for not putting up with it.”
The New York Times featured Marchese in 2019, before he joined the publication, calling him a “master interviewer” with an unique ability to “[create] rapport with big-name subjects.”
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