Cue the Paula Cole theme music! Katie Holmes just lately shared her ideas on a possible Dawson’s Creek reboot — and a return to Capeside isn’t in her future.
“We’ve undoubtedly talked about it through the years,” Holmes, 43, advised Display Rant throughout an interview revealed Monday, July 25. “However I really feel like that present captured that point interval and that point in all of our lives.”
The present, which aired from 1998 to 2003 and was created by Kevin Williamson, adopted the lives of wannabe filmmaker Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek), his greatest buddy Joey Potter (Holmes), who has been in love with him since childhood, shut buddy Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson) and new lady subsequent door Jen Lindley (Michelle Williams) as they undergo by means of rising pains and the ups and downs of highschool.
‘Dawson’s Creek.’ Warner Bros Television/Kobal/Shutterstock
Holmes, who starred within the WB sequence for the whole lot of its six seasons, defined that she is “so grateful for the expertise” however doesn’t see how the identical magic might ever be captured once more.
“I believe it’s nice that you’re nostalgic for it. So am I. But it surely’s like, can we wish to see them not at that age?” she quipped. “All of us determined we don’t [want a reboot] truly,” she stated of her costars Williams, 41, Van Der Beek, 45, and Jackson, 44.
This isn’t the primary time Holmes has spoken out towards a possible revival. The Secret actress advised the Right now Present in 2016 that making an attempt TV sequence like Dawson’s Creek in 2022 wouldn’t have the identical “sure attraction” because it did earlier than the brand new millennium.
“It was earlier than the Web actually took over,” she defined. “It was earlier than iPhones, it was earlier than this type of new type of communication, and it had this sure feeling that was of the ’90s. I don’t suppose that in at present’s world, you might obtain that very same form of feeling.”
The Disturbing Conduct star’s claims are backed up by Jackson, who joked to The Guardian in September 2021 that “no one wants to listen to [my character] Pacey grunting when he will get out of a chair,” explaining that it’s much less interesting for the actors to return when the characters they as soon as performed have been youngsters.
“I believe as a result of the Mates forged have been already adults once they have been doing the present, it’s much less jarring to see them now,” the Dr. Dying star stated. “In the event you put our mid-40s selves collectively on a sofa now, with our creaking backs, it’d shock individuals.”
Nevertheless, not all the forged are in agreeance about leaving the Creek behind. Mary-Margaret Humes, who performed Dawson’s mother Gail Leery, advised Individuals in March 2021 that she as soon as wrote “190 pages of an thought for a crossover to a reboot” for the hit teen drama sequence.
“Whether or not it goes wherever, I don’t know, however there’s definitely a whole lot of buzz about it,” the Florida native, 68, stated.
