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My Top 20 New Favorite Actors - #16: Jesse Lee Soffer

Introduction to Him: Chicago P.D.

Jesse Lee Soffer as Travis Alexander in Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret! 💕🫶🏽❤️

Tagged by @npdclaraoswald to answer some questions! Thanks for the tag

Favorite color: Been really into the color purple recently

Currently reading: lots of fanfics! I'll share a few that Im currently loving;

AA(can be found on Fanfiction.net) - Chicago PD related, Jay Halstead has headaches that turn out to not be headaches

Nightmares and Visions(AO3) - Chicago PD related, A serial killer is on the loose, Jay gets caught in the crossfires

Not a Second Time(AO3)- MASH related, The Vietnam War is here and guess who volunteered? Good ole Hawkeye Pierce!

Red White Blue and Black(AO3)- MASH related, Hawkeye gets attacked one night (this was one of the first MASH fics I read and I'm so happy it's still being updated)

Last song: How Do I Say Goodbye by Dean Lewis

Last movie: God I don't know maybe the Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret lifetime movie

Sweet/spicy/savory: Sweet

Currently working on: looking for more background extra work and trying to get more production gigs

I'm going to tag: @bipolarhawkeyepierce / @rogerwaterssdivorcelawyer / @idontgohereeither / @gregorygerwitz / @queer-cheer / and anyone else who wants to participate and hasn't been tagged, consider yourself tagged!!!

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Jesse Lee Soffer as Travis Alexander JODI ARIAS: DIRTY LITTLE SECRET (2013)

Jesse Lee Soffer as Travis Alexander in Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret

Jesse Lee Soffer looking like an adorable dork in Lifetime’s Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret (w/Tania Raymonde) in 2013 😅😍😯🤤

creds to Wordpress for some pics; the rest I either found on Google or screenshot from the trailer(s) I’ll leave the trailers below:

MAY 26, 2008

Texts & Notes

A Silhouette of a Relationship: The Contours of an a Addiction

You weren’t just a piece of meat…The sexual part of me was an unevolved way of trying to be more loved. I knew you weren’t in love with me. I knew you cared, but it wasn’t that kind of love. So when we made love, I was actually able to convince myself, yes lie to myself.

It really felt for that space of time that it was something bigger and better. But that’s the intoxication felt from sex. And you made it so good.  You became another person. It’s like you nearly worshipped me. I felt sooo so so loved when we did that. It became absolutely addicting.

The better I was, the more you wanted me and the more we got together. I was a whore for you because I was a whore for that feeling. I was a whore in general. I still am.

- Jodi Arias

Its clear Jodi has a lot more invested in their dalliance, in fact, she’s had everything invested in it. Travis is along for the ride. Travis doesn’t seem to be keeping up his end of the bargain – he’s not giving love to get sex, he’s simply asking for sex.  Jodi is giving sex to get love, and perhaps crucially, seems to misconstrue Travis’ enjoyment, even his obsession with their deviancy and debauchery as adoration. A sense of being worshipped. Which is a stone’s throw from love when you’re not thinking very clearly.

What we see in the exchange is lucidity. Both are aware of their respective unrealistic expectations of one another. Travis doesn’t really like Jodi, and Jodi knows her feelings and expectations are not only unrequited and unrealistic, but patently incorrect. They’re misplaced. They both know it, yet they persist. Because they’re addicted. That’s their mendacity.

If one puts aside the slashed tires and stalker stuff, the paragraph Jodi communicates above comes across as both sincere and sweet.  If we didn’t know Jodi any better we might even be impressed by her admission that her sexual behaviour was ‘an unevolved way of trying to be more loved’.  It’s here too that we get a real sense of what Jodi truly wants in her life; to be worshipped.  To be adored.  One senses an empty life, a loveless life, a miserable drudgery in the reality of her everyday existence, and Travis was able to give her a respite from that.  Even if it wasn’t real. And that respite was like a drug.

For Travis, his desert was a lot more particular. As a public person he had a public persona to maintain, and as Mormon, even more so. Since he was a single man approaching the end of his twenties, his sex drive needed satiating, but his faith – the Law of Chastity – prohibited sexual release outside of married. So Travis had to fornicate in secret, and Jodi became his dirty little secret. His drug. And also his crutch. Jodi was Travis’ go-to-girl for his sexual fix, and even better, she was happy to be at his service, at his beck and call, willing to debase herself at his pleasure. And what aroused both of them, was that this arrangement actually worked in the narrow confines of the bedroom. Turning Travis on really made Jodi happy. Jodi wasn’t just turned on, she was happy during these encounters, which made the mutual rush even more powerful.

But an addiction is an addiction, ...

(MENDACITY: Jodi Arias by Lisa Wilson & Nick Van Der Leek)

Did you watch any other movies/shows of the cast before their PD days?

The only show I watched was One Tree Hill, but I’ve seen a lot of their movies over the years so I’ll list them below…

The Boy She Met Online (Tracy Spiridakos)

Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret (JLS)

The Brady Bunch Movie (JLS)

Selena (Jon Seda)

GI Jane (Jason Beghe)

Shooter (Elias Koteas)

Zodiac (Elias Koteas)

Rookie of the Year (Amy Morton)

I’ve also seen a lot of Sophia Bush’s movies.

Ahhhhh thank you soo muchhh @resanoona @hereforhalstead and @halsteadlover for tagging mee yayy😍😘😘

rules: tag nine people you want to know better

Favorite colour : ahhh purple cuz it's super pretty 💜💜

Currently reading : ahhhh resa's older ficss and a couple of rhodestead and Halsted brother ficss but honestly not muchh cuz my exams are closee😭😭

Last song : ahhhh wonder by Shawn Mendez dtfsrc it's awesome!!!

Last series : rewatching OC but I kinda wanna start new Amsterdam... I'm not suree😅😉

Last movie : Jodi arias : dirty little secret (cuz it has Jesse Lee soffer in it) but didn't finish it tho I'm not sure anymore cuz I found out it's a true story and that kinda erks me a bit 😬😬

sweet, savoury or spicy: spicyyy 100%, I need spice in my food. I hate bland stuff without spices😂😅

Craving : ughh time. I need time to do stuff 😭😭

Tea or coffee : ewww I don't like teaa it's always gonna be my love, coffee💞

Currently working on : a Halstead sister eating disorder fic just needs editing + prep for exams cuz chemistry is driving me crazy!! 😑😩😩

Ahhhhh imma tag : @sarahreeseiscool and @purple-dahlias and @brockreynolds and @chefdoeuvre and @study-coffee-chicago but no pressure 😘😘

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Jesse Lee Soffer born April 23, 1984 is an American actor. He is known for portraying Will Munson on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns and received three Emmy nominations for his work on the show. Since 2014, he has starred as Det. Jay Halstead on the NBC drama Chicago Fire, in a recurring role, and its police procedural spin-off Chicago P.D., as part of the main cast. He is also known for his role as Bobby Brady in the comedy The Brady Bunch Movie and its sequel A Very Brady Sequel. Soffer was in a relationship with Chicago P.D. co-star Sophia Bush from May 2014 to November 2016. Soffer dated Chicago Med star Torrey DeVitto from August 2018 to May 2019. In 1994, Soffer co-starred as Percival in the drama Safe Passage. In 1995, Soffer co-starred as Bobby Brady in the comedy The Brady Bunch Movie and reprised his role in A Very Brady Sequel a year later.[11] Continuing the pattern of working with Oscar-calibre and A-list talent, Soffer starred as a runaway-turned-sleuth Jamie Kincaid in the TV movie From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. He worked with director Richard Shepard in the AMC TV movie The Royale. In 1998, Soffer was cast as Taylor Donovan with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen on the ABC sitcom Two of a Kind. He also originated the role of Max Nickerson on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light in 1999. After four months on the show, he left to focus on his studies. After graduating from high school, Soffer returned to his television career. In 2004, he took over the role of troubled youth Will Munson on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns. He played the role until April 4, 2008. As of 2008, he was nominated three times for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series for his work on ATWT as well as a Soap Opera Digest Award nomination for Outstanding Younger Lead Actor in 2005. In 2007, Soffer returned to his film career and co-starred with Carly Schroeder in Davis Guggenheim's sports drama Gracie, based on a true story. In July 2010, Soffer reprised his role as Will Munsen on As the World Turns. In 2011, Soffer co-starred in the dystopian science fiction action thriller In Time. Since then, he guest-starred on a number of television series including CSI: Miami, The Mentalist and Rizzoli & Isles. In 2012, he co-starred with Jordana Spiro in the short-lived Fox medical drama The Mob Doctor as Nate Devlin, the streetwise brother of Dr. Grace Devlin. Later that year, he co-starred as Travis Alexander in Lifetime's original movie Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret.