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Jason Momoa says he 'fangirled out' the first time he saw Liam Neeson

By Megan Armstrong | Last updated 7/9/21

Jason Momoa's path to Hollywood was unlikely—and aided by this white lie—but something that happened once actually arriving in Los Angeles is just as unexpected.

It's also hilarious.

"I got some pretty crazy stories about first coming to L.A.," the 41-year-old actor told guest host Anthony Anderson on Jimmy Kimmel Live. "A bunch of them I can't talk about, Big Daddy, but this one I can. I went to my first nice restaurant, and I saw Liam Neeson, and 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."

"I just kind of stared at him, and I would just smile, and I creeped him out," Momoa continued. "He literally got up, and he left and went a couple tables over."

The Aquaman star then shared that he saw Al Pacino through a store window on Melrose Avenue: "I just stopped dead in my tracks, and I just spent the last half hour just walking back and front of the window to the point where he's looking at us, and Al Pacino just flips us off and starts laughing."

Fast forward, and Momoa has gone from starstruck underdog to receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2022:

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"I'd love to be next to Slash, maybe," Momoa told Anderson. "That'd be pretty rad. Marlon Brando. I don't think that's gonna happen, so I'm just happy to be the first Hawaiian, I think, in history. First Kānaka Maoli to be on that."

Next year will also bring Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the anticipated sequel to the original 2018 DC Extended Universe movie.

Momoa virtually visited Kimmel from Canada, where he has been shooting the second season of his Apple TV Plus series See, but he was there to promote Netflix movie Sweet Girl (out Aug. 20).

Watch the full interview below.