Aspoofed viral video has imagined what would happen if Jason Momoa was the latest celebrity to take the stand in the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial.

Momoa, who worked with Heard in the 2018 movie Aquaman and is set to share the screen again with her in the 2023 sequel, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, has not been called as a witness in the trial, but one social media user shared their interpretation of what it would look like if he did. The lip-synced clip created by YouTuber GeoMFilms and it has since crossed social media platforms, gaining millions of views in the process.

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Depp is suing his ex-wife Heard for $50 million in loss of career earnings after she wrote a 2018 op-ed stating she was a survivor of domestic violence. The current trial has become a viral sensation with terms related to the case trending daily while clips, testimony and memes are seemingly unavoidable online.

The video shows Momoa appearing via a video link in footage that is taken from a previous Zoom interview of his. The rest of the sounds in the video are dubbed over including Momoa’s “testimony,” Heard’s lawyer’s questions, and stifled laughs from Depp.

The original two-minute video has received almost 450,000 views on YouTube, but after being shared on TikTok, it’s garnered another 5.2 million views on top of that.

The video, titled “Jason Momoa takes the stand in Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial DUB,” jokingly imagines a scenario on the set of Aquaman where Momoa claims Heard defecated in the pool during one of the scenes. The joke is a reference to the claim that Heard left “fecal matter” in Depp’s bed, which she has denied.

While the video is clearly mocked up and intended as a joke, the comment sections on both YouTube and TikTok are filled with people admitting they thought it was real.

On YouTube the current top comment reads, “The fact that I genuinely thought this was real because this trial has been crazy as hell” while other commenters wrote, “So. Freaking. Legit!!!” and “This deserves an OSCAR!”

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TikTok users were fooled too as some of the highest-rated comments included, “Why did I think this was real lmao,” “Not me thinking this was real” and “for a minute I thought this was real.”

Celebrities have testified in court during the case. Depp and Heard have both taken the stand and actress Ellen Barkin has testified via a video deposition, as well. Elon Musk and James Franco were listed as witnesses by Heard’s team but they have not taken part in the trial.

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