Don’t get slap happy with Jason Momoa or you could end up in hospital.
During the filming of Game of Thrones season two, the 39-year-old hunk was challenged on set to “the slap game” - which sees one player slapping the other’s hands until they miss and swap over - by David Benioff, and it didn’t go too well for the GoT co-creator.
Speaking on HBO’s Backstories web series, David said: “Jason was one of our favourite people ever on the show, and very strong. And that’s not TV make-up - in real life, he’s just a big, strong dude.
“So, I’m looking at Momoa and Momoa’s talking about beating someone at the slap game. I was like, ‘I’ll take you at the slap game.’ I was like, ‘I’m going to challenge the Khal, because if I beat the Khal, I am the Khal.’”
Jason’s character, Khal Drogo, was killed off in season 1, but returned for a dream sequence with Emilia Clarke - who played his former on-screen wife Daenerys Targaryen.
David laughed: “I looked in Momoa’s eyes, I saw no mercy there. But I wouldn’t quit, because, you know, I had my pride. I had my dumb pride.”
His hands “doubled in size” by the next morning, and when he got home to LA, his wife, Amanda Peet, sent him straight to hospital.
Amanda’s diagnosis was that Jason had “squished my hands ... So, it just goes to show, don’t challenge the Khal”.
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