07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Hollywood star and vodka brand creator Jason Momoa considers branching out into whisky
The Game of Thrones actor is hoping to make a trip to Scotland to sample our national drink – purely for research, he says.
Hollywood star and vodka brand creator Jason Momoa, has revealed he is considering branching out into single malt whisky.
The Game of Thrones, A Minecraft Movie and Aquaman actor is hoping to make a trip to Scotland to sample our national drink – purely for research, he says.
The 45-year-old also revealed he would also try out Edinburgh's nightlife scene and maybe even pick up his own kilt.
Speaking exclusively to the Sunday Mail, Momoa, – who is the entrepreneur behind the Meili Vodka brand – said: 'I kind of feel like I need to visit Scotland and sample a few of their finest single malts.
'Purely for business interests only of course.
'I would really like to go to Scotland.
'I have spent a lot of time in London and I love the pub scene, and I hear in Scotland the pubs are just as good.
'I would love to go and experience them in an historical city like Edinburgh.'
The actor, who has previously been photographed wearing a kilt, added: 'On kilts, well when you think of the kilt, it is up there with the most iconic national clothing there is.
'It doesn't matter where you are from in the world – everybody knows a kilt. It's obviously been made even more iconic due to some serious warrior performances in movies so I would love to own one.'
Momoa said he was surprised to hear of an abandoned snake, named Jason MaBoa, which was found near Glasgow last year.
Named in the actor's honour, the young 3ft Boa Constrictor was later described as 'handsome and muscular' by staff
at the Scottish SPCA Edinburgh Animal Rescue and Rehoming Centre which took him in.
The Hawaiian-born Fast and the Furious star added: 'I didn't hear about that story but I love that name.
'Who thought of that, it is pure genius.
'I do hope the snake found a new home.'
Momoa launched his Vodka brand with friend and business partner Blaine Halvorson. The pair claim they spent nine years developing Meili, distilled with water from an ancient aquifer in Montana.
