'Do a Haka move' - The internet is slamming this reporter over her question to Jason Momoa

Publish date: Wednesday, 27 Feb 2019, 12:25PM

The internet has blown up over a question to Jason Momoa from a supermodel while reporting from the Oscars red carpet for US TV network ABC.

The question, which HEAPS of people are calling extremely cringe, came from Ashley Graham, who asked Hawaiian born actor Jason Momoa to perform a 'Haka move' on cue.

"I gotta get a haka move. I gotta get, like, one haka move," she asked the Aquaman star, attempting to demonstrate by hopping awkwardly from one foot to the other.

Although Momoa's partner Lisa Bonet first tried to shut down the question, Momoa gave a quick pūkana which seemed to be enough for the TV host.

It caused an outpouring of a response from viewers on social media, with one post receiving almost 2 million views.

Jason Momoa is Hawaiian.
The Haka is a Mãori ceremonial dance.
Whoever this woman is that was interviewing people on the red carpet shouldn't & Lisa's response was just right.pic.twitter.com/u1B0rv33OU
— Ottilia Anna MaSibanda (@MaS1banda) February 25, 2019

One member of the public said that it seemed like Ashley Graham saw the Haka as a sort of 'dance craze'.

Ashley Graham asking Jason Momoa to do the Haka at the Oscars irked me so much.

“Oh hello ethnic person, do your ethnic tribal funny dance for us on the red carpet.’

I’m glad my sister-wife intervened. She wasn’t having it.
— Stephanie Yeboah (@NerdAboutTown) February 25, 2019

#AshleyGraham asking #JasonMomoa for “a haka move” like it’s the latest dance craze and not a culturally significant ceremonial dance was reallllly inappropriate.
— actual adult emma ™ (@femmanisim) February 25, 2019

I think every Native person has had some version of this interaction: some one asking us to perform being indigenous, rather than being allowed to just be indigenous. #NativeTwitter

https://t.co/U9KfmbePdx
— Rebecca Nagle (@rebeccanagle) February 26, 2019

So fam, is it cringe or cool?!