James Van Der Beek’s “Dawson’s Creek” hair was impressed by EW photograph of Brad Pitt: ‘Seemed like pubescent Jesus’

Enjoyable truth: Leisure Weekly had a shocking affect on Dawson's Creek.

Whereas collection star James Van Der Beek has beforehand spoken about how his season 1 haircut was based mostly on Brad Pitt, he's now sharing that the inspiration photograph given to the hairdresser truly got here from a difficulty of EW's journal.

Whereas talking at an ATX TV Competition panel honoring the legendary profession of Dawson's Creek creator Kevin Williamson on Friday, Van Der Beek recalled the story about how he needed to get a haircut earlier than taking over the position of teenage filmmaker Dawson Leery. And that's when he revealed which model of Pitt impressed his last-minute late '90s haircut.

"We ran throughout city [trying to get a haircut], and Kevin's assistant mentioned, 'I acquired an appointment at my hairdresser,'" Van Der Beek informed the panel's viewers in Austin of the fiasco.

"And I meet his assistant [at the salon], and there was an Leisure Weekly with an image of Brad Pitt in The Devil's Own, and we're like, 'Alright, give him that.'" he mentioned of his character. "In order that turned the Dawson season 1 haircut."

The actor laughed as he mocked what his hair regarded like earlier than that pivotal haircut. "I regarded like pubescent Jesus," he mentioned. "It was lengthy."

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Van Der Beek, who opened up about his ongoing colorectal most cancers battle in December, beforehand shared that he received't let his six youngsters (whom he shares with spouse Kimberly Brook) watch Dawson's Creek.

"I don’t [let them watch]," he mentioned. "It's a fantastic present, I like the present, I believe different children can watch it. I don't suppose my children want to look at their dad fake to undergo puberty. That's my stance on it."

Nonetheless, the actor nonetheless appreciates the beloved teen drama. "It was a really well-intentioned present, folks actually attempting to do the proper factor and talking extremely eloquently about how they have been attempting to do the proper factor," Van Der Beek mentioned. "I believe that seed of fine intentions comes by."

Dawson's Creek premiered on The WB in 1998, and ran by 2003. Together with Van Der Beek, the present additionally launched the careers of stars Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams, Busy Philipps, and Joshua Jackson.

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In 2018, EW reunited the solid and crew of the collection for a twentieth anniversary cowl story, with Williams providing her perspective on why the mission resonated with viewers.

"I cherished that we have been capable of get in there in these youth for folks," she mentioned on the time. "That’s why folks, I believe, are so related to it. When one thing impacts you whilst you have been rising up, it type of stays in there without end. Once you’re so permeable and open and attempting to determine who you’re and what’s happening, no matter reaches you in these moments actually turns into a part of you."

—Extra reporting by Samantha Highfill

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