Jason Momoa is the “number one fan” of his Supergirl character Lobo.
The Minecraft Movie star openly campaigned to play the DC comic-book character on-screen and even pitched himself for Lobo in a text to James Gunn and Peter Safran on the day they took over DC Studios in late 2022.<\/p>\n
Momoa, who will make his debut as Lobo in Supergirl, is thrilled that he will always be known as the actor who played Lobo on film first.<\/p>\n
“I feel like I’m the number one fan of Lobo and I want to do everyone justice… As far as legacy goes, I got to play Lobo first, how’d you like them apples?!” he joked at a fan event in London on Thursday. “It’s really just one of those roles that you were born to play. I loved it as a child and to finally be able to play something like this… It’s surreal.”<\/p>\n
To transform into the “unapologetic” alien mercenary and bounty hunter, Momoa spent four hours in the make-up trailer before filming every day.<\/p>\n
He also recalled his first day on set, when he had to drive a motorbike to a certain point as pyrotechnics went off behind him. Once he nailed the first take, it sank in that he’d finally achieved his dream of playing Lobo.<\/p>\n
“I remember gunning it with everything, went past the mark where I was supposed to stop and I just hit the brakes so hard,” the Game of Thrones actor shared. “I slid right in and pulled the cigar and said the first line, I’m like, ‘I’m f**king Lobo!’ It was an honour.”<\/p>\n
He added that director Craig Gillespie kept encouraging him to do “more” during his takes, a note he doesn’t typically receive.<\/p>\n
“(I’m) like, ‘What?! More?’ I felt so safe and encouraged to just be… this is the freest I’ve ever been in a character,” he noted. “No one’s ever encouraged me to do more.”<\/p>\n
Momoa played Arthur Curry\/Aquaman in the previous DC Universe.<\/p>\n
Supergirl, starring Milly Alcock in the title role, will be released in cinemas on 26 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Momoa is the “number one fan” of his Supergirl character Lobo.The Minecraft Movie star openly campaigned to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,3991,4309,144907,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-485416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-james-gunn","tag-jason-momoa","tag-lobo","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}