Jason Momoa at the Conan the Barbarian premiere: gorgeous, hot or meh?

Jason Momoa. Hot. Hard. Tough. Surrounded by ladies. These are new photos of Jason at last night’s premiere of Conan the Barbarian, his bid for movie star fame. Since we’re not doing Hot Guy Friday this week (it’s just me and Bedhead today, sorry!), I thought I would do a post devoted to The Hotness That Is The Momoa. First, how he looked at the premiere: I don’t really care for the suit – it’s too shiny, and I feel like the jacket is tailored in an odd way – but I appreciate that it must be difficult for Jason to find nice suits that fit. And blue looks great on him! And I love the snazzy vest too. I wonder if he really wears glasses? Because those are not attractive frames on him. Still, he looks nice, overall.

Jason had two “dates” for the premiere – he brought his wife Lisa Bonet and his step-daughter Zoe Kravitz. Both look thrilled to be there with him, although Lisa looks like she might shank a bitch who gets near him. She’s looking at you, Rose McGowan. McGowan and this blonde chick (Rachel Nichols), Jason’s Conan costars, also posed with Jason and those bitches were handsy. Wouldn’t you be all over him too? I would drape myself on him.

To promote Conan, Jason has given lots of new interviews too. No, he’s not talking about how hard and throbbing he is again (sigh). But he does talk about his primal, animalistic side (yay!). Here are some highlights from various pieces:

On doing another Conan movie: “I am, as long as people go out and watch [the first one], you know what I mean?”

On the story for a potential Conan sequel: “I wrote it. Yeah, so we’re waiting to see if they’ll accept it. It will mostly be… It’s character-adapted, because I really want to get into more of the mythical creatures, you know? We wanted to go there [in the first one], but having Clash of the Titans, and coming out against that, we wanted to put the budget into some other things…. I don’t want to give anything away, but we already have our Conan, really it’s about the villain, what that villain is going to extract from Conan, and where as an actor I want to go with Conan. You know, no one’s going to know what I want to do better than me. I want to @#$%ing make a great Conan movie.

Asking a friend to break his nose: “I wanted to have my nose broken for this role but wasn’t sure how to accomplish it.” So he asked a friend. “I was like, ‘Dude, I have this idea. I think you should break my nose. Would you do it?’” Momoa recalls. “My buddy just did it right away, damn it. After it was over, I said, ‘Dude, didn’t you want to think about it for a minute?’ But we’re guys and he said, ‘You don’t have to ask me twice. Done deal.’ Just please don’t tell my wife about it,” he begs. “I wonder if she reads your newspaper?”

Jason on Conan: “He’s a man. He fights, he f—s. He’s a pirate thief. He’s flawed,” Momoa says. “He’s a soldier and a warrior. He won’t fall in battle. Plus, women think he has this animalistic, primal side to him that’s sexy. Above all, he says what he means.”

Going on The Tonight Show: “I did refuse any makeup,” he says. “Someone wanted to put powder on me and I said, ‘Are you nuts? I’m a barbarian.’”

How he got the Conan role: I was cast because I do “Game of Thrones” and the film had a mutual casting director who knew my work. He said, “This kid is our new Conan.” Actually, being cast as Conan wasn’t a nail-biting thing. Getting the HBO series was the nail-biter because I had to wait to find out, plus they didn’t want to cast out of America. It was seven months of ups and downs. With “Conan,” I was equally thrilled because it was a truly iconic role and a departure from who I am.

On comparisons to Arnold Schwarzenegger: Of course, but then again, Sean Connery and Daniel Craig are both James Bond and both phenomenal. We saw Jack Nicholson do the Joker in “Batman” and thought no one else could do it. Then Heath Ledger came along and won an Oscar for it. It’s apples and pears or peaches and cream. The point is that it’s a new day for Conan. … When I started this movie, I watched the first Conan movie and Arnold did a great job, but it’s 30 years later. It’s actually shocking that no one redid Conan before now. … [Schwarzenegger] saw the movie and passed on a message that I did a good job. That was fantastic to hear.

Getting injured: Oh, I almost died on the horse a few times. Once, the horse’s feet went out underneath him and I slid off his neck. When the horse fell, his butt almost crushed me but missed me by a narrow margin. I was also bucked off and broke a rib. You heard about my broken nose. Don’t tell my wife. There were also mornings where I had to crawl out of bed because my body was hurting so bad. So, I’d just put some Epsom salts in my tub and sit there. Then I’d go back to the set and do a few more stunts, knowing that if something really happened to me, I’d be … word deleted.

[From The Chicago Sun-Times and Crave Online]

I love him. He comes across kind of like a puppy, right? A giant, overly-excited puppy. Okay, I need to stop with analogy because I was going to write something that would be seriously wrong. Suffice to say, the man is HOT.

Oh, and who looks worse, Zoe Kravitz or Rose McGowan? It’s a tie, right?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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