While known worldwide for his role on Sex and the City as kind and caring Smith Jerrod, the only man who could break through Samantha’s (Kim Cattrall) steely emotional resistance, Jason may soon be known for another staggering success. Recounting his youth, as a “geek, who grew up hiding in libraries,” we are pretty certain that there are girls from high school wishing they’d paid more attention to the boy with all the books.
Inheriting a love of travel from his beloved grandparents, Jason set out to explore the world at a relatively tender age. He took an opportunity to visit Paris, and while there worked at that opportunity as he “wanted to eat and did not want to go home.” Working and living there for a few years, he turned his life into a business and began his modeling career. Soon he became one of the top male models in the world. In ad campaigns and on the runways for Versace, Dolce and Gabbana, Calvin Klein, Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, and GUESS, he showed men, and women, how to be fashionable.
What drew him to acting was the storytelling. In films, on stage, and in television, every medium tells a story. Immersed in books ranging from Hemmingway, Asimov, and Tolkien to biographies of notables as a youngster, he grew to love a good tale from the premier novelists of all time. After starring in NBC’s Midnight, Texas, as fallen angel Joe Strong, he is no stranger to the horrors and thrills that the special effects of movies and television can portray. Midnight, Texas was based on the book series by Charlaine Harris, who gave us sleepless nights with the captivating otherworldly hit, True Blood.
With a career on stage, in films, and in television spanning over 20 years, and a dramatic list of acting credits, Jason is now seriously at work on a series of novels; six of them. Move over, J.K. Rowling. His dream project consists of six books that are an epic fantasy, with a bit of science fiction and a creative leap into future worlds. Called The Source Chronicles, and featuring tales of magic and mayhem, the stories are set in the not too distant future, and in periods of the future so far, far away that we need his words to aid our imaginations. Undergoing intense editing right now, Jason is planning to have a first draft of the first book by spring of 2021. Featuring 3 time-scapes and a grand scope, these works are not his first. Authoring The Rules of Magic, a sort of bible in the laws of conjuring, brings to mind his starring role as Dex Lawson on the long-running, good-witch tale Charmed.
His viewpoint that, ‘as an actor, he is in the service of something greater… the story,’ is what propels him to write these electrifying fictional fables. Enjoying refuge in literature his whole life has given him ‘a place of fulfillment, as opposed to self-importance.’ Stories are such an incredible tradition to him, and he relates that he has learned so much from prose. His writing is his way ‘to participate in the passion of storytelling and perhaps bring the light of enjoyment to others’ that he has so greatly, and gratefully, enjoyed himself.
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