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Jason Momoa lashes out at reporter after r@pe question

Actor Jason Momoa, who played Khal Drogo on the hit series “Game of Thrones,” has recently expressed his discomfort with being asked about his involvement in scenes depicting s**ual violence.

In the show, his character’s wedding night with Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) ends in R^PE.

Author George R.R. Martin wrote the scene differently in his book, but showrunners David Benioff and D.B.

Weiss changed it for the pilot without notifying Martin.

Martin later criticized the change, saying it made the pilot worse.

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Momoa was asked if he had any regrets about the s**ual assault scenes in “Thrones.” Momoa initially responded that it was important to depict Khal Drogo’s character accurately and that he had already played the role.

However, after the interview was completed, Momoa circled back to the question, expressing that it made him feel uncomfortable.

“When you brought up ‘Game of Thrones,’ you brought up stuff about what’s happening with my character and would I do it again. I was bummed when you asked me that,” Momoa said.

“It just feels icky — putting it upon me to remove something.

“As if an actor even had the choice to do that.”

Momoa also expressed that it is not an actor’s role to question the script or make changes.

“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,” he said.

Momoa is not the only “Thrones” cast member to express discomfort with the s**ual assault scenes.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who played Jaime Lannister, said in an interview with The Times of London last October that it was “really tough and degrading” for Emilia Clarke to act in the pilot’s s**ual assault scene.

In an earlier interview with Entertainment Weekly, Clarke also expressed her discomfort with the scene.

“It was a really kind of wonderful thing to be able to go in and play the opposite of what I’d just been doing [in previous roles],” she said.

“But there have been plenty of times when actors are put in situations where they’re made to feel vulnerable and exploited.”

Clarke also said that the scene was particularly difficult to film because she had to be n/ked in front of a large crew.

“I took myself off to a quiet corner and found my inner strength, but I’m not sure it was the right way to do it,” she said.

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