Jason Lewis is revealing his surprising whereabouts.
The 54-year-old actor, who played Smith Jerrod in Sex and The City, largely left the spotlight following his role in the hit HBO series, and is just now speaking up about what he’s been doing ever since.
Jason Lewis moved to Costa Rica
As it turns out, Jason moved from California to Costa Rica, where he is working on a fantasy book series made up of nine novels.
He says the series is inspired more by Lord of the Rings
“Closer to Lord of the Rings. It’s epic fantasy. It’s my own magic system based more in physics than the soft magic of casting spells and stuff like that,” he explained in an interview with THR.
Why he decided to leave Hollywood behind
“I’d been working on it for quite a while and I found myself at a point where I knew it was large when I started, but it just kept expanding and growing into this bigger and bigger world as I plotted it and figured it out. I literally sat down with pen and paper and did kind of a ‘what do I need, what do I want’ design-of-life list,” he said of his decision to move and write his novels.
“Certainly at the top of the list was the space to do this because this is me on a journey of discovery as much as anything. I’ve never written novels before this, so I don’t have a bunch of feathers in my cap to lean on. I wanted a healthy lifestyle and access to good food. I surf, and being right next to a beach is very easy motivation for me to stay healthy. Sometimes you don’t want to go to the gym, but I always like to go play in the water. And I also wanted to learn Spanish.”
Jason revealed he’s currently on Book 7, and it’s the first one he’s writing.
“I’m on the fourth draft of it. Well, 3.5. The first draft is really just a 150-page summary,” he explained.
“The idea is to start with the release of seven. Truth be told, I think it started because of being a fan of Star Wars and other stuff where I thought, ‘Oh yeah, let’s just do this in reverse.’ But as I developed the themes and the presentation and the story and how things get there, there are really three different arguments happening in the same space. The first trilogy is an idealistic tale. The middle one is when good intentions go terrible, when you become the monster so the monster can’t hurt you. And the last one is more of a redemption story. A more realistic worldview of doing our best with what’s handed to us.”
For more about his upcoming series, head to THR.com to read the full interview.
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