“If we were really destined, then we will find a way to be together again,” said the message of the photo that actor James van der Beek (Connecticut, United States, 48 years old) shared on August 20 (with 1.6 million followers) to announce the end of the series. The meeting between Van Der Beek, Joshua Jackson, Katie Holmes and Michelle Williams was scheduled for a month later, this September 22, in New York, where the protagonists of the successful teenage drama of the nineties were going to read the script of the pilot episode with the objective of raising funds for the organization, which gives information and support to those who suffer from the disease of which they go. But a few hours before the reunion, the actor who played Dawson for health problems. “Despite all my efforts, I will not be able to be there,” he lamented on Instagram who gave life to the young man who names the series. However, even if it were not face -to -face, in the end it was.
“I’ve been waiting for months with Ansias tonight, since my angel, he told me that he was going to organize it,” Van der Beek began to say this Monday through a recorded video that was screened on the stage of the Richard Rogers theater in New York, in which he looked considerably more thin. “I cannot believe that I am not there. I cannot believe that I cannot see my cast partners, my beautiful cast, in person,” he continued after thanking the followers for buying tickets for beneficial purposes and presenting his friend Lin Manuel Miranda as his substitute for reading the script. “My children will consider it an improvement,” he joked about the participation of the renowned producer and actor.
“I just want to get on stage and thank each person from the theater for being here tonight. From the cast to the team, going through all those who are doing something and have been so generous, and especially each of you: they are the best fans in the world,” said Van der Beek in the video.
In addition to the four protagonists of Dawson growsother actors in the series also attended the event, such as Mary Beth Peil, John Wesley Shipp, Mary-Margaret Humes, Nina Repea, Kerr Smith, Meredith Monroe or Busy Phillips. Nor were the wife of Van der Beek, film producer Kimberly van der Beek, who went to the New York theater with the six children of marriage: Olivia (14 years old), Joshua (12), Annabel (10), Emilia (8), Gwendolyn (6) and Jeremiah (3). In fact, the family of the absent actor was encouraged to get on stage to sing with the rest of the cast I Don’t Want To Wait, of Paula Cole, which was the main tune of fiction. “For him it was important that we came,” said his wife.
The cast of “Dawson’s Creek” came together on Sept. 22 for an emotional, powerful reunion in New York City.
Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, Mary Beth Peil, John Wesley Shipp, Mary-Margaret Humes, Nina Repeta, Kerr Smith, Meredith Monroe and Busy Philipps took…
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“Thank you for coming. It is a true lesson of humility how much they did for tonight, and I just want to thank you. Thanks to everyone present,” insisted Van der Beek in the video. The actor announced that he suffered from colon cancer in November 2024, and has always been very open and optimistic about his illness. “I have colorectal cancer. I have been dealing privately with this diagnosis and I have been taking measures to solve it, with the support of my incredible family,” he shared with People On November 3 of last year. On July 30 that felt great: “It has been a trip. There are so many ups and downs and so many unknowns. Cancer is … I call it a full -time work … it is a process. Probably, it will be the rest of my life.”
On Sunday, September 21, the actor who would be absent from the event for “two stomach viruses” that prevented his presence. “They can imagine how shattered I feel,” he said. “Let everyone enjoy all the love in that room. Give my family a bit. I will be radiant and receiving it from afar in a bed in Austin,” he wrote in the publication.
