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Jason Mewes

Birth name: Jason Edward Mewes

Birth date: 12.07.1974

Mewes was born to a heroin-addicted mother and an unknown father in Highlands, New Jersey, and was raised by his aunt through most of his childhood while his mother was in jail. When his mother was out of jail, she would usually steal credit cards from neighbors' mail boxes in order to fuel her habit. Mewes remembers that she used stolen money to buy him a bicycle for Christmas, one of the few Christmas gifts he remembers receiving. During a brief period when she worked as a drug dealer, she would send a young Mewes out on his bike to unwittingly deliver drugs to people she didn't trust enough to deliver them herself. When his mother wanted to go out for the evening, she would leave him and his sister at the homes of people she barely knew. These people would lock them in the closet; he would later develop claustrophobia. Mewes met Smith as a teenager while both of them were students at Henry Hudson Regional High School in the late 1980s. He developed a notorious reputation in his hometown of Highlands, with rumors that he broke a window at a local pharmacy, or that he had won the lottery. Mewes is Smith's first and only choice for the lead role of Oliver Queen in a proposed Green Arrow adaptation for The Weinstein Company. He auditioned for both Bart Allen (Flash) and Arthur Curry (Aquaman) on the series Smallville. Mewes also starred in the pilot episode of a Smith-directed sitcom called Hating Hal (which never advanced beyond the pilot stage.) While he is mostly known for acting in films, Mewes also has worked in television. He voiced the role of Jay in the short-lived Clerks: The Animated Series. He, along with Smith, has made appearances in the film Scream 3, and on Degrassi: The Next Generation. He appeared in two episodes of a three-part story arc in which he and Smith film a new addition to Smith's New Jersey films entitled Jay and Silent Bob Go Canadian, Eh? at Degrassi Community School. They appear again on Degrassi (in a two part episode), at the premiere of Jay and Silent Bob go Canadian, Eh? in Canada. Mewes, Smith, and Degrassi star Stacie Mistysyn made the cover of Canadian TV Guide. In 1998 he starred as "Gary Lamb - Ground Activist" in a series of Nike commercials directed by Smith. In Tony Hawk's Underground, Mewes and Smith appear on the subway to the New York level. In Scarface: The World is Yours Mewes provides a voiceover for a thief who stole illegal mixtapes. The character's dialogue is completely identical to his Jay character by constantly swearing. When Kevin Smith shot his film Chasing Amy, starring Ben Affleck and Joey Lauren Adams (and based on his relationship with the latter), Smith didn't need Mewes as much as in the two previous films, Clerks. and Mallrats, mainly because the Jay and Silent Bob characters were restricted to one 10-minute scene (in which Smith's Silent Bob character shares much of the dialogue), which was shot over the course of a night. Mewes had memorized all his dialogue, while Smith struggled with the large monologue he had written for himself. It was at this point that Mewes began using cocaine and heroin.[1] Mewes had also struggled with a lifelong opiate addiction. Chasing Amy was released to stellar reviews and even some awards, and the $12 million gross of the $250,000 film paved the way for Smith to make Dogma, a script which utilized the Jay and Silent Bob characters more than any previous film. Between the making of the two films, Smith and Mewes attended an AIDS benefit hosted by Harvey Weinstein, the chairman of Miramax. Upon learning that Mewes' mother was HIV positive, he promised to get her to the best doctors in New York, a promise he kept. Soon after, Smith opened up his own comic book store, called Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, in Red Bank, New Jersey. Mewes asked if he could work at the store full time, and Smith gave him the run of the place. A few months after the opening of the store, Smith came in several times to find a customer waiting for Mewes to return. At times Mewes seemed ill and frequently fell asleep. During the recording of the Chasing Amy laserdisc commentary, Smith confronted Mewes and asked him about his drug use. After much denial, Mewes finally admitted that he was using heroin.[1] Smith moved Mewes out of his mother's house and into his own Red Bank apartment. The night before Mewes started a methadone program, he was so ill from withdrawals that he tearfully begged Smith for money to buy heroin, which Smith gave him. Smith says Mewes still refers to that day as “the day you shook hands with the devil”. Mewes then began the methadone program and started to successfully kick his heroin habit and spent more and more time with Smith, frequently going on trips to find Star Wars action figures at Toys-R-Us to take his mind off things. Mewes started to show even more signs that he was becoming healthy again. After finding out that respected English actor Alan Rickman was going to star in Dogma, Mewes proceeded to memorize not only his lines, but the entire screenplay as well so he "wouldn't piss off that Rickman dude". While making Dogma, Smith and producer Scott Mosier instructed Mewes' new girlfriend, Stephanie, to watch his friend for any signs that he had started to use drugs again. To their knowledge, Mewes was clean throughout the filming of Dogma, but they later found out that Stephanie had actually become Mewes' connection for heroin while they were filming in Pittsburgh. As Stephanie was getting paid, and Mewes was getting his biggest paycheck yet, they were able to quietly keep themselves equipped with drugs and not suffer from withdrawal symptoms, while keeping it hidden from the cast and crew. Ironically, Mewes' Dogma performance is considered by many to be one of his best, despite being a heroin addict throughout the shoot. He would even frequently fall asleep while they were filming scenes but Smith, still somewhat naïve on the subject of drug abuse, didn't realize this was a sign that Mewes had begun using again.[2] By this point, Smith had married USA Today reporter Jennifer Schwalbach. She was pregnant with their daughter and they soon moved into a new house. Mewes and Stephanie opted to stay with Mewes' mother until Smith later found out that he had once again slipped into heroin use. He moved Mewes and Stephanie into his own house and decided to get them off heroin, cold turkey. Shortly after, Mewes again started using heroin and Smith evicted him from his home. Mewes lived with his mother and found himself hooked on a new drug: Oxycontin. After travelling to both France and England for Dogma-related events, Smith moved Mewes back into his house in order to quit using drugs. After a month, Mewes traveled with Smith to Los Angeles for an awards show. One night, Mewes took Smith's ATM card, after telling him he was going to use it to withdraw money and his taxi fare, and withdrew $1,100 from it by early morning. He spent most of the night trying to get drugs to no avail and eventually returned to his hotel room and trashed it. That day, Smith and Mosier put Jason in an L.A.-based rehab center, from which he escaped. Eventually he was found and put back in once again, and not allowed to take phone calls for a week. When Smith finally spoke to him again, Mewes said the place felt more like a psychiatric ward, so he was moved to another rehab in L.A. where he proceeded to get clean. During this time, Smith and his wife returned to Jersey so that she could give birth to their daughter, Harley. A month later, they returned to L.A., where Mewes was now substantially sober and stable. He recorded tracks for the first few episodes of Clerks: The Animated Series, and then later returned to New Jersey. In order to convince Mewes to quit drugs permanently, Smith told him that he was writing a screenplay for a Jay and Silent Bob feature in which Mewes would be the lead star and get a large paycheck. The condition was that he get off heroin and Oxycontin. He agreed and checked into another rehab clinic.[4] Seeing him again a month later, Smith found Mewes much healthier and happier after spending time in a rehab (along with friend and frequent collaborator Ben Affleck). However, at Smith's house on Thanksgiving of that year, it became clear that Mewes had begun using drugs again after someone offered him cocaine at a Q&A in Colorado. Mewes stayed downstairs at Smith's house and kept agreeing to play with Smith's daughter when she asked, only to disappear again. Angered, Schwalbach Smith told her husband that she wanted Mewes out of the house.

Filmography

# Untitled Kevin Smith Horror Project (2008) # Netherbeast Incorporated (2007) .... Waxy Dan # Repo (2007) .... T.J. # The Tripper movie download page (2006) .... Joey # Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006) (VG) (voice) # Bottoms Up movie download page (2006) .... Owen Peadman # "Minoriteam" .... Airport Security Guard (1 episode, 2006) - Tremendous Class (2006) TV Episode (voice) .... Airport Security Guard # Jack's Law (2006) .... Bobby Mewes # Clerks II movie download page (2006) .... Jay # TV: The Movie (2006) ... aka National Lampoon's TV the Movie (USA: complete title) # Nice Guys (2005) .... Quebert # My Big Fat Independent Movie (2005) (voice) .... Answering Machine ... aka My Big Fat Indy Movie (USA: TV title) # Tom 51 (2005) # The Pleasure Drivers (2005) .... Counter Monkey # Powder: Up Here (2004) (V) .... Evil Villain # Hardware: Uncensored Music Videos - Hip Hop Volume 1 (2003) (V) .... Jay (segment "Because I Got High") # Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003) (as Jay Mewes) .... Jay the MC ... aka Pauly Shore Is Dead (Australia) # High Times Potluck (2002) .... Guy # R.S.V.P. (2002/I) .... Terry # Hot Rush (2002) # Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back movie download page (2001) .... Jay # "Clerks" .... Jay (5 episodes, 2000-2001) ... aka Clerks: The Cartoon (Australia) ... aka Clerks: Uncensored (USA: DVD title) - Dante and Randal and Jay and Silent Bob and a Bunch of New Characters and Lando Take Part in a Whole Bunch of Movie Parodies... (2001) TV Episode (voice) .... Jay - Leonardo Leonardo Returns and Dante Has an Important Decision to Make (2001) TV Episode (voice) .... Jay - The Last Episode Ever (2001) TV Episode (voice) .... Jay - The Clips Show (2000) TV Episode (voice) .... Jay - A Dissertation on the American Justice System by People Who Have Never Been Inside a Courtroom, Let Alone Know Anything About the Law, But Have Seen Way Too Many Legal Thrillers (2000) TV Episode (voice) .... Jay # Vulgar (2000) .... Tuott the Basehead # Scream 3 (2000) .... Jay # The Blair Clown Project (1999) .... Witness #3 # Tail Lights Fade (1999) (uncredited) ... aka Rallye, Le (Canada: French title) # Dogma movie download page (1999) .... Jay # Spilt Milk (1999) # Chasing Amy movie download page (1997) .... Jay # Drawing Flies (1996) .... Az # Mallrats movie download page (1995) .... Jay # Clerks. (1994) .... Jay