Everyone has had their own little starstruck moments in life but Jason Momoa’s starstruck moments resulted in him, quite literally, pissing two of the biggest Hollywood actors of all time aka Al Pacino and Liam Neeson. Momoa himself is a pretty famous actor, but before he became famous with his celebrated role as Khal Drogo in Game of Thrones, he was just a young man going around LA enjoying his first time in the city of dreams.
And it is there that he came across The Godfather famed Al Pacino and the Taken famed Liam Neeson, but his first meeting did not go as anyone can imagine, instead he managed to annoy them both.
When Hollywood Legend Al Pacino Flipped Off Jason Momoa
Jason Momoa is quite an intimidating star. Standing 1.93m tall with a very commanding presence thanks to his muscled physique, he naturally draws all the attention to himself. But back when he just started out as an actor, the Aquaman star was just another guy in LA.
Over three years ago, the actor made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live and very candidly retold some interesting stories from back when he first came to the La La Land aka Los Angeles. Among one of the anecdotes he shared, the actor recalled meeting the great Al Pacino. And here is how his first meeting went,
“I got some crazy stories of first coming to L.A… I was on Melrose, checking out Melrose. And I was walking up and down the street and I in a window, me and my buddy and we see Al Pacino. And I just stopped dead in my tracks. I spent the last half hour just walking back and forth over the window to the point… he’s looking at us and Al Pacino just flips us off.”
Regretting that he did not have any camera or a pen to get an autograph, the actor remarked he got starstruck really easily. Well, no one could have thought that the great hunk of a man would get starstruck, but he does apparently and also managed to piss off one of the biggest actors in the history of cinema.
The Time When Jason Momoa Creeped Out Liam Neeson
If pissing off Al Pacino wasn’t enough, the DC superstar went on to also creep out Liam Neeson during his first outing in Los Angeles. While on Jimmy Kimmel Live he revealed how he saw the Taken star sitting a few tables across from him in a nice restaurant and he couldn’t help but keep smiling at him, an action which in other circumstances would have proved quite fatal.
“I went to my first nice restaurant and I saw Liam Neeson. I fangirled out. I had never met anyone famous yet and I watched Rob Roy when I was growing up. And I was really excited. And I just kind of stared at him and I would just smile. I creeped him out. He literally got up and he left and went a couple tables over.”
In addition to being Aquaman, Momoa seems to also possess the rare art of getting under Al Pacino’s skin and creeping out Liam Neeson, an actor whose eyes are enough to give people the runs. Who would have thought that even the super masculine and Goliath superheroes could fangirl?
