The Dawson’s Creek cast “didn’t want to wait” any longer to reunite . On September 22, the stars of the seminal 1998 series, including leads Michelle Williams , Katie Holmes , and Joshua Jackson , came together in New York for the Dawson’s Creek Class Reunion , where they performed a script reading of the pilot episode. And they made a very special gesture in honor of the co-star who couldn’t join them.

The event was set up by Williams to support James Van Der Beek, who played the titular role of Dawson Leery for all six seasons, and was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in November 2024. He was scheduled to participate in the reading, but announced on Instagram the day before that he had to drop out after developing “two stomach viruses,” saying he was “gutted” to cancel

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