Nearly 30 years after Dawson’s Creek premiered, cast alum Busy Philipps recently admitted that one particular storyline did not age well.

Although the actress debuted as Pacey’s ( Joshua Jackson ) future girlfriend Audrey on Season 5 in 2001, she explained why she played a different character during last month’s live reading of the pilot episode benefitting F Cancer, following co-star James Van Der Beek ‘s Stage 3 colorectal cancer diagnosis .

“They’re not even together [in the pilot],” Philipps told People . “He’s going to have a really insanely inappropriate relationship with a teacher, which by the way, is so wild. And just goes to show you culturally how much we have changed for the better, right?”

During the reading at Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City, Phi

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