Joshua Jackson remembers the audition course of for Dawson’s Creek, likening it to The Starvation Video games.
The Physician Odyssey star was finally solid as Pacey Witter, Dawson’s wisecracking greatest good friend, however Jackson mentioned he additionally auditioned for the titled character in The WB drama.
“I feel I had like 9 auditions for — I feel first for Pacey, then for Dawson, then again to Pacey,” Jackson mentioned on the Dinner’s on Me podcast. “After which once I made it to the ultimate, closing, closing factor, they take you to the Warner Bros. ranch.”
He continued, “In that room are 35 potential children who at the moment are, like, put into this Starvation Video games second. And also you spend actually your entire day getting referred to as in teams, proper, like, ‘Okay, you two. You 4.’ Getting taken again to the room, you audition, and you then come out, and…4 persons are simply gone. After which two persons are gone.”
Jackson went on to star in Dawson’s Creek for the present’s six seasons alongside James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, and Michelle Williams.
“The ultimate reduce down, I used the washroom, and I hear the gong go off,” he recalled. “I come out of the bathroom and now each government from the WB has come from each workplace in all places and is simply standing there, looking at me and James and Katie and Michelle, as we’re like, ‘Oh, that is the place they eat us, I suppose. That is the place they put us within the pot.’ And so they’re like, ‘Congratulations, you simply acquired the job!’ I don’t even assume I knew which function it was that I lastly auditioned for.”
Dawson’s Creek premiered in 1998 on The WB and aired its closing episode on Might 14, 2003.
