The Return of Jay and Silent Bob : “I thought the Jay and Bob characters were going to – that he wasn’t going to write them in any more stuff. One, because I was getting messed up. And two, because I thought he didn’t want to keep using them before people start hating them, but then he didn’t. Hopefully, people won’t get sick of us.”
The Freedom to Play: Mewes said there wasn’t a lot of adlibbing going on, but he did throw in some lines. “After we shoot I’ll sit down with Kevin and I’ll do his dialogue and I might add something. He’ll say, ‘No, keep it that way. Go back to what I wrote.’ Or I’ll go, ‘Well, I don’t really like that,’ and so we’ll come up with something together and we’ll do that. Or sometimes I’ll throw something out and he’ll go, ‘Oh, that was funny; do that again.’”
Jason Mewes on His Nude Scene: “I was fine with it as long as I didn’t have to show my a**. That was my first thing. I was like, ‘Am I going to be covered up? Am I going to have a robe on?’ I had no problem tucking and showing the front, but I didn’t want to have my pasty, white a** shown. I’m not too comfortable with my a** so I didn’t want to show my a**.”
Mewes has a problem showing his butt but did allow it to be seen through a window. Mewes acknowledged, “Yeah, but that’s different. It’s different smushing it up against a window. Like right now, seeing my a** in the dark with a window – or me standing up here and pulling my pants down and all you guys looking at my a**, that was the difference. But against the window, I don’t mind doing that. I’m like the guy who after sex, puts on my boxers right away – unless I’ve been with the girl for a long time [then] it doesn’t matter.”
The New and Improved ‘Jay’: “I thought it was funny that Kevin put it in. A lot of it is true about the ‘getting sober’ and some of the stuff that he wrote, like the ‘deployed airbags’ is true. I really did get pulled over and arrested for all that stuff. I thought it was really funny.”
Have the changes Jay’s gone through coincided with Mewes’ real life? “Some of it, like the going to rehab and getting sober,” replied Mewes. “Not so much that I carry a Bible around, and I don’t hang out in front of stores and I don’t deal drugs. But there’s definitely parts of it, and some of the stuff he wrote is true and it’s pretty funny.”
On Staying Sober: Mewes has been sober for three years now and admits it’s been a weird process. “I was talking to a buddy not too long ago about it. I lost my license because of the drugs and I didn’t have a car for six years. My checking account, because I spent all my money on that, I just started using all my money and I just closed my account back then. So all that stuff is getting back to normal. I just got my own place and just stuff like that, normal stuff – the normal stuff that people have at 30, 31 years old.”
Getting his own place means he moved out of Kevin Smith’s. “Yeah, about two weeks ago I finally moved out. His wife was pretty tired of it. I was ready to stay for another three years, at least… I miss being around the house. I miss being around people; I miss being around family. I consider his wife, his daughter, his mother-in-law, father-in-law – Jen’s parents [family] – and they’re all amazing. The home-cooked meals are great. Waking up going swimming with Harley, just stuff like that, I miss all that.”
But Mewes didn’t stray far from the Smiths’ house. “I’m real close – four or five blocks? No, I wouldn’t say four or five blocks, yeah – close. I was trying to figure out the distance, but I’m not real good. It could be a couple miles, but I could be totally wrong. It’s a five minute drive – put it that way.”
