Dawson's Creek is beloved, however maybe not good — and Busy Philipps is aware of that higher than anybody.

Reflecting on the storied teen drama that helped launch the careers of Hollywood stars like Michelle Wiliams, Katie Holmes, and Philipps herself, the actress lately pointed to at least one early storyline involving her frequent scene accomplice Joshua Jackson that also shocks her.

"He's going to have a very insanely inappropriate relationship with a trainer, which by the best way, is so wild," she stated of Jackson's character, Pacey Whitter, in a brand new interview with PEOPLE. Philipps mused that the torrid tryst between 15-year previous Pacey and 36-year-old trainer Tamara Jacobs (performed by Leann Hunley) "simply goes to point out you culturally how a lot we’ve got modified for the higher, proper?"

Dawson's Creek ran for six seasons on the WB, from 1998 to 2003. Created by Scream scribe Kevin Williamson, the coming-of-age drama starred Holmes, Williams, Jackson, and James Van Der Beek as a bunch of small-town Massachusetts teenagers who turn out to be lovers and greatest pals, break up, make up, and finally develop up.

Followers nonetheless debate which couple was the sequence' true endgame, although it's Jackson's Pacey and Holmes' Joey Potter who stroll into the sundown within the finale. Nonetheless, Pacey's tumultuous affair along with his trainer made an infinite affect when it performed out throughout the primary and second seasons, and it might loom over the character's complete arc throughout the sequence.

Pacey first meets Tamara when she visits Display screen Play Video, the rental retailer the place he works as a clerk. They flirt, and the next Monday she realizes on her first day educating at Capeside Excessive College that Pacey is considered one of her college students. He pursues her, they usually ultimately sleep collectively after Pacey reveals to Tamara that he's a virgin.

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Philipps joked that whereas Williamson "didn't write the a part of Audrey," her character on thefifth and sixth seasons of Dawson's (Williamson left the present he created after season 2), he may take some credit score after she voiced Tamara in a latest desk learn of the Dawson's Creek pilot. "After the present, I stated, 'Effectively, Kevin, I suppose you probably did write a component for me on Dawson's Creek. You simply didn't know that it might take 20 years for me to be the correct age to play it.'"

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Jackson himself addressed the controversial storyline in 2021. The actor acknowledged that whereas it's "actual for a youthful individual to have sexual needs for an older individual," he believes that "we nonetheless deal with teenage feminine sexuality very otherwise than we educate or deal with male teenage sexuality." He saved that disparity in thoughts when circling again to the Pacey-Tamara storyline, asking himself, "Do I feel that the present ought to have judged it otherwise? Possibly, as a result of it's half and parcel of that double commonplace."

Hunley commented in 2011 that the Pacey-Tamara story is one which "has been round a very long time," including that she and Jackson "truly constructed like an uncommon belief in one another… We managed to search out that and make it work."

Whereas Hunley was not current on the latest Dawson's reunion desk learn, which raised cash for the charity F Most cancers in honor of Van Der Beek's colorectal most cancers analysis, Jackson turned out alongside Philipps, Holmes, Williams, and Van Der Beek (the latter of whom appeared by way of video message).

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