‘Intercourse and the Metropolis’ alum slept on flooring in Paris for six months
“Intercourse and the Metropolis” alum Jason Lewis mirrored on his rocky street to fame and having to sleep on flooring in Paris with almost no cash for meals earlier than reserving the ’90s hit TV sequence.
The actor, who portrayed Samantha Jones’ (Kim Cattrall) love curiosity Smith Jerrod, detailed his struggles when he relocated to Europe to mannequin on the age of 21.
“I starved for some time,” he shared on a latest episode of his co-star Kristin Davis’ podcast, “Are You a Charlotte?”
Lewis, 55, would scout out bakeries and steal a baguette.
“Then, I’d go to love an out of doors cafe … and take a pot of their mustard and dump it on [the baguette], after which I’d have mustard bread sandwiches for lots of my meals,” he continued.
“So slept on flooring,” the “Mr. Brooks” star advised Davis, 61, explaining that his life modified when he booked a gig.
“I feel my first like first rate cash began coming in a couple of 12 months and a half later,” Lewis stated. “So there was like a six-month hunger interval the place I may purchase this one cucumber and this piece of cheese.”
“It was simple to remain skinny, although,” he quipped.
Lewis made his debut as Samantha’s younger mannequin boyfriend, Smith, on “SATC” in 2003 for the sequence’ sixth and remaining season when he was 32.
Samantha, who labored as a publicist, helped Smith’s profession skyrocket as their relationship took an unexpectedly severe flip.
The duo’s characters even caught collectively whereas Samantha was battling most cancers, and had been finally nonetheless a pair when the sequence wrapped in 2004.
Lewis reprised his function within the 2008 “Intercourse and the Metropolis” film and the 2010 sequel, although he and Cattrall’s characters had cut up and remained pals.
He wasn’t requested to rejoin the solid, minus Cattrall, for the HBO reboot “And Simply Like That,” which was canceled after three seasons final summer season.
Cattrall, 69, didn’t signal onto the sequence, except for making a short cameo in Season 2, amid her longtime feud with Sarah Jessica Parker, who portrayed Carrie Bradshaw.
Moreover, the actress advised Piers Morgan in a 2017 interview that she had “by no means been pals” together with her different castmates, alluding to Davis (Charlotte York) and Cynthia Nixon (Miranda Hobbes).
Lewis, in the meantime, went radio silent after he competed on “Dancing With the Stars” throughout Season 31 in 2022.
Nevertheless, he resurfaced in Could to announce he had moved to Costa Rica and had written a nine-book fantasy sequence, which has but to be revealed.
“After three years, it was time,” he captioned the publish.
