Joshua Jackson Remembers Robust Love From Mighty Geese Costar Emilio Estevez

Typically mentors can change your complete mind-set.

Joshua Jackson opened up about filming the Mighty Geese movies and dealing with Emilio Estevez on the March 11 episode of The Kelly Clarkson Present. The episode was guest-hosted by Brooke Shields, and he or she requested the actor about what he realized from Estevez throughout their time within the beloved franchise.

“I used to be fairly younger. And I type of realized how one can be on set from Emilio, as a result of I didn’t know any of these things,” Jackson, 46, stated. He performed Charlie Conway within the trilogy of movies, starting with 1992’s Mighty Geese. Estevez, 62, performed Gordon Bombay, a former youth hockey participant who has to teach the workforce as group service. 

The Fringe alumnus remembered that at some point whereas filming 1994’s D2: Mighty Geese, they filmed a recreation sequence in an area full of individuals; he guessed round 20,000 followers have been in attendance. “And as I used to be coming off [the ice], I don’t know why — both I used to be being a bit dick or I used to be drained or no matter — however for some motive, there have been a bunch of individuals ready for autographs and I simply blew previous them to go to the locker room,” Jackson remembered. “And Emilio pulled me to the facet and was like, ‘Don’t ever try this once more.’ And I used to be like ‘What do you imply?’ ”

“ ‘Don’t ever, ever try this once more. Why do you assume you get to go on the market and skate in entrance of all of those individuals? That is who retains you employed. Don’t ever overlook who it’s that you simply’re right here for,’ ” Jackson remembered his costar saying.

Shields referred to as Estevez’s recommendation “sensible,” including, “My mother used to say, ‘Each individual is one individual.’ And that relationship is simply between you and them and you must respect it.”

Jackson stated, “It was a very necessary reframing for my 15-year-old self [to be like], ‘Simply bear in mind who you’re and what’s necessary.’ ” Shields added that the truth that Jackson “took” the recommendation was a “enormous testomony” to who he was as an individual.

The Mighty Geese franchise additionally starred Kenan Thompson, Marguerite Moreau, Elden Henson and Jussie Smollett. Estevez reprised his position as Bombay within the first season of the 2021 Disney+ collection Mighty Geese: Sport Changers. 

Jackson finally transitioned into older roles together with his half as Pacey on Dawson’s Creek, which he starred in from 1998 to 2003. He additionally starred in 1999’s Merciless Intentions. 

Jackson presently stars in ABC’s Physician Odyssey as Dr. Max Bankman. “It is the primary time in a really very long time that I am taking part in a reasonably uncomplicated man,” he advised PEOPLE in September 2024. “He is an effective physician and a very good man making an attempt to determine his life.”

“However actually, what the present [is], it isn’t about heavy, dramatic backstory. It isn’t about secret drug habit or affairs. It is a enjoyable, horny, stunning, fast-paced Ryan Murphy fantasy,” he defined.

Physician Odyssey airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. ET on ABC and subsequent day on Hulu.