A Complimentary Profile Of Jason Lee That Was Surprisingly Difficult To Publish
March 3, 2026 at 04:25PMComplex relationships with celebrity are nearly always more interesting than tales of perpetually ascendant superstars. That’s certainly the case with Jason Lee, the former professional skateboarder and star of Mallrats and My Name is Earl who, more recently, operated a small camera shop in Los Angeles. “This story was always going to be about a man willing to walk away from things,” Nate Rogers writes in his profile of Lee. But that requires working with Lee to retrace his steps—an effort that turns challenging, and nearly prevents Rogers from telling the tale at all.
The paradox of Jason Lee—to me, The Enemy, at least—is that he is a celebrity who openly invites fans to come hang out with him on a regular basis, but who also has historically remained a notably private person. Who essentially dropped out of acting for a full decade and moved to Texas, just because he felt like it. Who would eventually tell me with sincere frustration that he would have said no to our interview if he knew the extent of what I was planning to ask. Who agreed to a profile and then successfully had it killed by the magazine in which this article was originally meant to run.
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2026/03/03/jason-lee-actor-photography-scientology/
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