‘Sex and the City’ alum reveals surprising career move after coming out of hiding

And conscionable for illustration that, Jason Lewis is an author.

The “Sex and nan City” alum, 54, revealed he moved to Costa Rica and wrote a nine-book imagination series, a week aft emerging connected Instagram for nan first clip successful 3 years.

During an question and reply with nan Hollywood Reporter Thursday, Lewis revealed he spent his clip successful Central America surfing, learning Spanish and waking up — sometimes astatine 4 a.m. — to activity connected his trilogies.

“I do my point and locomotion nan formation aliases tally nan formation if nan surf isn’t bully yet and past person my java and settee successful and get to nan table and person a session,” he detailed.

After meal he heads backmost to his table and tries to “get anyplace from 1,000 to 2,000 words connected nan page a day.”

The books are each “set successful nan aforesaid world successful different eras,” pinch nan “Sex and nan City 2” prima releasing nan seventh book first.

“I chose to commencement astatine nan end,” Lewis told nan outlet, stating that his novels onshore nether nan “epic fantasy” genre.

The character shared that his return to societal media was astatine nan behest of his representation, but he doesn’t want “to get mislaid successful nan thought of performative posting.”

“I very overmuch for illustration to effort and create a community,” Lewis expressed, “and not conscionable beryllium successful nan broadcast of, ‘Hey, cheque maine out. Aren’t I awesome?’”

However, nan writer knows he has to turn an assemblage that will return liking successful his books, truthful he “put a batch of thought” into his first station back.

On May 21, Lewis uploaded a video of himself stepping connected nan formation to nan societal media platform.

He cryptically explained to his followers why it “was time” to yet return to nan app.

“I went quiet,” Lewis admitted. “Not because I person thing to say, but because I had thing to do.”

“The benignant of imaginative activity that doesn’t time off room for overmuch else, and I made my peace with that. It’s nan benignant of activity that needs to find its people, though.”

At nan time, Lewis didn’t cardinal his fans into his writing, but did opportunity nan task was “far capable on now that it felt for illustration it was clip to resurface and stock what I’ve been doing.”

The erstwhile exemplary captioned his post, “After 3 years, it was time.”

Lewis near nan nationalist oculus aft competing connected Season 31 of “Dancing With nan Stars” successful 2022.

He and his creation partner, Peta Murgatroyd, were nan first brace eliminated.

Lewis credited his fianceé, actress Liz Godwin, pinch convincing him to springiness nan ABC show a shot.

“This year, erstwhile nan connection came in, my fiancée asked maine to beryllium a small little pigheaded and astatine slightest return a look astatine a show,” he told People astatine nan time.

Lewis first gained fame for portraying Samantha Jones’ (Kim Cattrall) young exemplary fellow Smith Jerrod connected “Sex and nan City” from 2003 to 2004.

He past starred successful nan 2008 “Sex and nan City” movie and its sequel successful 2010.

Despite being a fan-favorite, Lewis — whose past acting domiciled was successful 2018’s “Midnight, Texas” — was not asked to return for nan show’s reboot series, “And Just Like That.”

“As overmuch arsenic I admit nan flattery,” Lewis expressed to nan Daily Front Row at nan time, “the speech is astir nan girls.”