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Employers refuse to believe that Jason Momoa of Game of Thrones has any English


Jason Momoa(as Khal Drogo.)The guy who made ladies watch all seasons of the Game of Thrones eight times each without flinching and left every guy who watched him swell with admiration and jealousy at such disarming mix of charm, savagery and utter beauty, making little kids attempt speech using some Dothraki(Khal Drogo's language) lines copied from Khal Drogo.

So who really is this Khal Drogo?
Well, assuming you are part of the infinitesimal few on this planet who have never watched an episode of game of thrones, I first wanna say: Been there.
Then Khal Drogo, as Jason Mamoa was called in the movie, is a powerful khal, or warlord, of the Dothraki people, a tribal nation of horse riders in the steppes beyond the Free Cities. He is an accomplished warrior and has never been defeated in battle. In A Game of Thrones, Viserys Targaryen and Illyrio Mopatis marry
Daenerys Targaryen to Khal Drogo to get his support and warriors for the invasion of Westeros. He proves a kind, sensitive, and loving husband. After there is a failed attempt on Daenerys's life, he vows to invade Westeros, but is wounded in a subsequent battle. He begins developing a severe case of sepsis. Daenerys unwittingly sacrifices their unborn son to save him with blood magic. While this saves his life, he is left in a catatonic state. Daenerys euthanizes him by smothering him with a pillow. At his funeral pyre , she walks with her dragon eggs into the flames and emerges unscathed with three baby dragons. He is the namesake of her favorite dragon, Drogon.
Khal Drogo is not a point of view character in the novels, so his actions are witnessed and interpreted through the eyes of Daenerys.

Jason Momoa away from the camera.
Joseph Jason Namakaeha Momoa (born August 1, 1979) is a not so average Hawaiian guy with a wife(Lisa Bonet) and two kids. He's an actor, model and producer.
When Jason first met the Game of thrones character Khal Drogo, he said:
When I read that Khal Drogo role, I was blown away. I couldn't believe it was happening, I had to have that role. I was like, 

"Nobody is going to take that role from me." ... People say it's easy [to play the role]—"You're just sitting there!" But it's extremely hard to be extremely intimidating, and say everything but not say anything."

Momoa contributed his own ideas to his portrayal. For example, in one scene, Drogo cements his position as the lead
khal by ripping out the tongue of a dissenter, Mago.

 The scene was not in the script, but was suggested by Momoa after he made the observation that Drogo, who is said to be a great warrior, had never been shown demonstrating his prowess as a warrior onscreen.

Employers fail at seperating Khal from Jason
But surprisingly it wasn't always easy for Jason Momoa to score jobs because...well, Game of Thrones kinda ruined it for him.
When Jason appeared on The Tonight Show for a little chat with Jimmy Fallon about the new series of Netflix show Frontier , he explained that after he starred in GoT people didn't think he could actually speak English.

Because if you remember way back to Season 1 of the show, Khal Drogo speaks in Dothraki.
"Yeah, not a lot of people thought I spoke English. It was very challenging," is what Jason apparently told Jimmy. (I was too busy staring at his face and I can't multitask.)
"It's like, what do you do with Drogo? You're not gonna put him in a comedy."
And Jason didn't realise people thought this until he met Fred Armisen, who starred in the TV show Portlandia alongside Momoa's stepdaughter, Zoë Kravitz.
"He was like, 'I didn't even know you spoke English' and it was heartbreaking. I was like, that's why I'm not getting any jobs."

He's from Hawaii, not Dothraki.

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