James Van Der Beek shares 20 year old Dawson’s Creek throwback featuring Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson
JAMES Van Der Beek has posted a throwback picture of him with his Dawson Creek co-stars to mark twenty years since the show first hit our screens.
Branding them 'Squad '97' James posted the picture to Instagram, with a long caption, saying: "I'd known these people all of 7 days when this pic was taken. 20 years ago this week."
"The little pilot we shot in that small town for that fledgling network aired, changed our lives and launched our careers."
He also credited the crew and residents of Wilmington, North Carolina where the show was filmed, who "raised us and kept us sane."
Despite the show being a huge success, 40-year-old James admitted he had hardly watched any of the drama's six seasons.
He said: "It's true that I haven't seen most episodes (it became healthier at a certain point to just commit 100% on the day and let it go completely) but the beauty of this arrangement is that my impression of the show now is what you've all reflected back to me over the years...and it's been lovely to witness.
"So thank you to anyone who's ever expressed appreciation for the work we did.
"It makes me feel proud to be associated with these three fine people (and the rest of the cast) and proud to have been a part of #DawsonsCreek.
"This one will always have a special place in my heart."
The show aired from January 1998 until May 2003, and amassed a huge following.
The show's lead James - who played Dawson - is now a father-of-four who has gone on to have more than 30 TV and film credits to his name.
Katie Holmes, who dated co-star Joshua Jackson off-screen for the first two series of the show, is a leading Hollywood actress.
Michelle Williams has received four Oscar nominations, and Joshua Jackson's career received a huge boost thanks his part in the Golden Globe winning drama, The Affair.
Speaking in 2016, Katie Holmes ruled out a revamp of the show, saying: "When I look back at the show, it had a certain charm.
"It was before the internet really took over, it was before iPhones, it was before this kind of new form of communication and it had this certain feeling that was of the 90s.
"I don't think that in today's world, you could achieve that same kind of feeling."
The show also launched the career of Busy Philipps and cemented her friendship with co-star Michelle Williams.
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Michelle has since called best friend Busy the "love of her life".
Busy shared a picture of the two of them together earlier this week, marking the ten-year anniversary of the death of Michelle's former boyfriend and Hollywood actor Heath Ledger.
The pair had daughter Matilda, now aged 12, together, before he was discovered dead in his home from an accidental overdose.
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